APPROPRIATE QUOTATIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 196, 17 August 1872, Page 4

APPROPRIATE QUOTATIONS.

A correspondent lias favored tthe Wellington Post with a few mottoes 'for some of the members of the House, and other public men :— . Mr. Fox— "Water, water, everywhere. Reader Wood — As ; headstrong aa an allegory. . i? . . . Sheehah— -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— r-Tho'u.:;. art weighed in the balance and found wanting. „ ; . ' ;. c Mr"^Speaker —• Silence .that dreadful Bell. ■ :;■,■:-, ■ .: , ;■:.;.- --eloha ! gold ! gold ! gold]! y| Karaitiani— Mislike me not for my 'com-' plexion.\. ; ,;.:,- v ;..- ■:,,"•,'_ : •■..., „• <.••' FitzheibOTC-^-Se thinks too much ; such men, are dangOTous. if . ' ' i Mervyn-^Gratiano speaks, an infinite deal of nothing. „-,--; ' •. / " ; Steward— Often the cock-loft is empty in those which nature tas built many storeys high. ; • E.O^onor—Done to death by slander- -'. ,oub' tongri^s.^ •'■-;■' \ ': ,. t ; fiarrison^Eaay. writing 's curst hard; ■reading.:'^ v'vV'O :. : ■-'■/..: ' .:-'■... . : -'-'■ Buc£ie~^ou yourself are macncon> demneji^to^ v :'^'^^la^tf^iA.: 'fellow, that hath had A"nj3re'^?rrG>|^fpr '^a^forty-parson, power. .oCaldOT—iCJjSen! he wiU;2;taik-~gb6d gods, & ; l iv'''Eee"ves~S^m i e;;;h^v,a; ..'.greatnes^ •thrust' } : . . \&.:ssf bgdeh^l hear In J ihe lobbyi

Wilson—A good old *man, : sir — -he wjlr : be talk-ing.- —'- "•■'. " ■-" | '."'■' . - ; , ' :}■:-]. / ■■•' ; Johnston — T'v modesty's a candle to thy merit. -...>. "Bathgato— l knew n bank; Curtis — My simteuce is for open war, Bluett, — .There goes- the parson; oh. illustrious' spark! Mijor Campbell — And there scarce lees illustrious goes the clerk! Shephard — -Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? " '■ Courtenay William Aylmer Thomas Kenny — Phoebus ! what a name. M'Leod — A mere anatomy. Colonel Russell — He shall ro more return to his house, neither shall bis place know him anymore. Vogel— rßesolved to ruio or to rule the state. Evans Brown — I'll bow, I'll cringe, be supple as your glove. O'Rorke — Tne right man in the right place. Collins — Well may your hearts believe the truths I fell. — Collins. Sir D. Monro — I have done the state some service, and they know it. Carrington — Never deviates into sense. M'Leau — I am a native, and to the manner born. Gisborne — A equftre person has squeezed into a round hole., Brandon — JSuperfluoua lags the veteran on the stage. ' , Macandrew — A man of an unbounded, stomach.