Familiar Sayings.

Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 26

Familiar Sayings.

Ottr readers are invited to contribute quotations of not mart than eight or nine lines.)

Quotation* from tno best Authors.

Selected by 0. M. W., Daneam :— I ain't bo natty on muscles j I prefers intellect.— Jccks,

We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, whioh the pise powers deny us for our good : bo profit we by losing of our prayerß.— Shakespeare.

How poor are they who have not patience.— Shakespeare. Well thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mook at us.— Shakespeare.

A promise made admits not of release.—Sheridan Knmoles.

Whan a good woman is fitly mated she grows doubly good, how good soe'er before.— Sheridan Snowies.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuoua, there shall be no oakes and ale ?ShaJcespeare.

The honor of a maid is her name ; and there is no legaoy so rich as honesty.— Shakespeare.

Oar doubts are traitors, and make as lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.— Shakespeare- ,

Selected by Pills, Wangauui i— Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they disouss ifc freely.— Lord Macaulay.

Whoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free disouaeion is more in love with his own opinion than with truth.— Bishop Watson.

Pew are so wise as to prefer useful reproof to treaoherous praise,— La, Bochcfouciuld.

It is only your friends and your enemies that fcell you of your faults.

Seleoted by W. Clarke, Oaversham .— A vile conceit in pompous words express'd Is like a clown in regal purple dressed.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but for the music there. — Ibid.

At every trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride or little sense. —Ibid.

What the child admired, Thp youth endeavoured, and the man acquired. — Dryden. Be not simply good-be good for something. —Thoreatt. One when a beggar, he prepares to plunge ; One when a prince, he rises with his pearl. — Mrs Browning. Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow to the meaneßt thing that feels. —Wordsworth. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, But in rising every time we fall. 1 • —Co7\fucius. Come, firm Resolve, take thou the van, Thou stalk of carle-hemp hi mail. —Burnt. Sink not in spirit, who aimefch at the sky , Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. —George Herbert. Watering the tree, which heara his lady's name . With his melodious tears/ " —Petrarch. Think nought a trifle, though It small appear,; Small sands the mountains, moments make tho year, And trifles life. „ ' ! —Young.

■ Seleoted by Thomas M. Baxter, Doneain :— All pleasures mast be bought at the price of pain. For the trae, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you -en joy it— John Foster*

Pleasure tasteth'well after service.

He that abounds in riches, good cheer, dogs, horses, equipages, fools, and flatterers, mast oertainly be a great man.— Jßrugene.

A man's best friends are in his purse.

It is only necessary to grow old to beoome more indulgent ; I see no fault committed that I have not oommitted myself.— Gwtke,

Experience is the best teacher.

Be as careful of the books you read as of the oompany ! you keep ; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. -Paxlon Hood, '

A bad hook cannot repent.

Selected by Elizabeth McCarthy, Wyadham : Life is real 1 Life is earnest t And the grave ia not its goal ; 'Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' Was not spoken of the soul. Lives of great men all remind ufl We can make our Hveß sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Let us then be up and doing. With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

— Longfellow.

Selected by R., Oamaru, from Pollock's Oonrae of Time :— book I :— Virtue, I need not tell, when proved and full Matured, inclines us up to God and heaven, By law of sweet compulsion strong and sure. What I am, to God I owe, Entirely owe, and of myself am naught. He sees their coming, and with greeting kind, And welcome, not of hollow forged smiles, And ceremonious compliments of phraae, But of the heart sincere, into his bower Invites : like greeting thoy returned. i Few words will set my wonder forth, and guide Thy wisdom's light to what in me is dark. Yet haply not rowardless we shall trace The dark disastrous years of flnishod time ; Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. So perfect here is knowledge, and the strings Of sympathy so tuned, that every word That eaßh to other speaks, though never heard

Before, at once is fully understood, And every feeling utfcerred, fully felfc. My youth expects thy reverend age to tell.

Selected by W. Hay, North Taieri :—

Plague, pestilence, and famine, are admitted by all but fools to be the natural results of causes for the moßfc part folly within, human control, and not unavoidable tortures inflicted by wrathful Omnipotence upon his helpless handiwork. —Huxley.

The secret of all snecess is to know how to deny yourself. Prove to me thab yon can oontrol yourself, and I'll say you're an educated man; and without tbia all other education is good for next to nothing.— if '"s Olipliant.

No man oppreseed thee, O free and in dependent franchiser ; but does not this stupid pewter pot oppress thee ? No son of Adam can bid thee come and go, but this absurd pot of heavy wet can and does, Thou art the thrall, not of Cedrio the Saxon, but of thy owa brutal appetites, aad this accursed dish of liquor, and then pretest of thy ' liberty,' (hou entire blook.-