SAYINGS, AND WHO SAID THEM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 May 1891, Page 4

SAYINGS, AND WHO SAID THEM.

• Dean Swift is credited with " Bread is the staff of life." It was Keats who said " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." -" 2 >C>f;v * I "Man proposes, but God disposes," renjftrked Thomas a Kempis. iFranklln la tfa^!9t£o^ fol*"'Gl dFhdps those who help themselves." It was an observation of Thomas Sothern tbat " Pity's akin to love." "AH cry and no wool" is an expression founclto Butler's ■• Hudibras." '*«• Where ignorapce ;is bliss ,;!tis: fbjlyltb* be wise" is in Gray's ode to Eton College. *■ Edward Colce, the English jurist, was of the opinion that "A, man's house is his castle." : . : .\ f "}. '. J ,:'■■ •-.^ '".Vl We are irr*ebted to Colley Cibber, not to Shakespea- ; for " Richard is himself again." , .• , .;> " Variety's the spice of life 1 ," and 1 " Not much the worse for wear," were coined by Cowper. Milton wrote "Peace hath its victories no less renowned than war" in his ode to Cromwell. ■fuWarc! Young fells us "Death loves^a v • ' C-: ;<k Hns Greek'' then comes i!i(> {■• ' c..'- : •.-," \-i.:; written by Nathaniel C:i i-!o; Pi;ic!;ncj' ,^.ve the patriotic sen--1ii:.:: : " :,' : !!i? 1 !:; '"or Jofc-nce, but not one l: Of two evils I have .chosen -the least," and "The end must justify the means" are iron Matthew Prior. The poet Campbell found that " Coming events case their shadows before" and "'Ti3 distance lends enchantment to the view." To Milton we owe " The Paradise of Fools," "A wilderness of sweets," land " Moping melancholy and moonstruck mad-nc::-s." : Christopher Marlowe, gave forth the invitation so often repeated by his brothers in a less public way : " Love rrie'little; 'love'ine long." v? ■, To Dr. Johnston belongs: ? A good; bater,", and to Macintosh, in 1701, thephras^ often attributed to John Randolph, ■ "WJjse and "masterly inactivity;" "« ' ' *" p Thomas Tasser, a writer of the sixteenth century, said: "It's ah" ill wind turns n.aj ■good," "Better late than never," "Look ere thou leap," .andjl" TJto stone that is rolling can gather no moss." -n\ [ [ "First in war, first in peace, and first In the hearts of his fellow-citizens", (not his countrymen), appeared in the resolutions \ presented to the House of Representatives