APPROPRIATE QUOTATIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 2969, 24 August 1872, Page 4

APPROPRIATE QUOTATIONS.

A correspondent favors us {Post) with a few mottoes for members of the House : Mr fox—Water, water, everywhere. Header Wood—As headstrong as an allegory. Sheehan—He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument, T. L. Shepherd—Egregiously an ass. Stafford—Awake! arise ! or be for ever fallen. J. D. Ormond—Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting, Mr Speaker—Silence that dreadful Bill. John White—oold ! gold ! gold ! gold ! Karaitiaua—Mislike me not for my complexion, Fitzherbert—He thinks too much; such men are dangerous, Mervyn—G radian o speaks an infinite deal of nothing. Steward—Often the cock-loft is empty in those which nature has built many stories high. E, O’Connor—Done to death by slanderous tongues. Harrison—Easy writing’s curst hard reading. Luckie—You yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. M'Glashan - A fellow that hath had losses. Andrew—-Oh, for a forty parson power. Calder Then he will talk—good gods, how he will talk. Reeves Some have greatness thrust upon them. Hall—Hobson’s choice. Brogden—l hear a lion in the lobby roar. Haughton—Although I enter not, yet round about the spot I oft times hover. Wilson—A good old man, sir; he will he talking, Johnson—Thy modesty’s a candle to thv merit. Bathgate— I know a bank, Curtis—My sentence is for open war, Bluett—There goes the parson; oh, illustrious spark ! Major Campbell—And there scarce less illustrious goes the clerk. (Shephard—Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd ? Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas Kenny-Phoebus 1 what a name. M‘Leod—A mere anatomy. Colonel Russell He shall no more rettlin to his house, neither shall his place know him anymore. Vogel—Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Evans Brown—l’ll bow, I’ll cringe, be supple as your glove, O’Rorke—The right man in the right place, Collins—Well may your hearts believe the truths 1. tell— Collins. Sir D. Monro—l have done the state some service, and they know it. Carrington—Never deviates into sense. M‘Leau—l am native, and to the manner born. Gisborne—A square person has squeezed into a round bole. Brandon—Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. Macaudrew—A man of an unbounded stomach.