It was during this period that her old friends were so occupied resuscitating their old friendships for herwhen all her antique sayings and doings became current ball-room and dinner-table

In the midst of their sauntering they hailed two of their friends,one Campbell, a sworn companion of the young West Indian; and the other Cameron, as closely allied to Hamilton;all the four being, as the saying goes, "birds of a feather," tossing their wings in the gale of sprees, and not always sleeping in their own nests at night.

"I don't blame you for cussing it out," he said; and the saying of it was a mark of the relaxed discipline which was creeping into all branches of the service.

"No cut to unkindness," as the saying is, a frown and hard speech, ill respect, a browbeating, or bad look, especially to courtiers, or such as attend upon great persons, is present death: Ingenium vultu statque caditque suo, they ebb and flow with their masters' favours.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay!

The saying is not by Montaigne, but by La Rochefoucauld: "On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie; mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu qu'une."Max.

The imputation that the sayings of his fallen fiends were the cherished sentiments of the poet himself, may have been one cause of his contempt for the average intelligence of his countrymen, and for their inveterate and incurable prejudices.

[1049] 'The saying of the old philosopher who observes, "that he who wants least is most like the gods who want nothing," was a favourite sentence with Dr. Johnson, who on his own part required less attendance, sick or well, than ever I saw any human creature.

But his favourite topics are the deeper springs of character, rather than superficial peculiarities; and his vigorous sayings are concentrated essence of strong sense and deep feeling, not dainty epigrams or graceful embodiments of delicate observation.

The saying slowly and deliberately the prayer "Aperi Domine" is a great aid to the scrupulous in forming a right intention and in dispelling their vain fears.

Upon this, Richardson, the painter, who had an eye for effect, remarks as follows, in his Notes on Paradise Lost, p. 497: "It has been thought," says he, "that Cain beat (as the common saying is) the breath out of his brother's body with a great stone; Milton gives in to this, with the addition, however, of a large wound."

In a very true sense all His sayings are "self-portraitures."

Notwithstanding this compliment, his pretensions to wit appear to have been but slender; the best sayings attributed to him being a set of middling puns, of which the following is a favourable selection:When Langdale's distillery was plundered, during the riots of 1780, he asked why the proprietor had not defended his property. '

A saying of one among them became their formula, and became noted:"The day of Kings is past; now is come the day of the Grandees.

Frustra fit per plura (as the saying is) quod fieri potest per pauciora; 300 simples in a julep, potion, or a little pill, to what end or purpose?

I have on the shelf, as the saying is, plenty of baked bread for a long time to come.

The saying about St. Swithin is a proof of how often they recur; for proverbial sentences are the children of experience, not of prophecy.

Such sayings do not become a young maid.

The love of kinsmen is grown cold, "many kinsmen" (as the saying is) "few friends;" if thine estate be good, and thou able, par pari referre, to requite their kindness, there will be mutual correspondence, otherwise thou art a burden, most odious to them above all others.

The Bible has lost much of its fresh charm for us, with whom its finest sayings are household words.

It remains now to but enumerate the enigmas found in all popular literature, and the satiric sayings attributed to holy persons of the fifteenth century, who, for having been virtuous and having possessed the gift of miracles, were none the less men, and as such bore anger and spite.

" The saying was still a riddle to Ahmed Ismail.

As we listen to words like these must not we also confess, "Either these sayings are not Christ's, or we are not Christians"? (2) Christ's idea of righteousness is further defined by contrast with that of the Pharisees: "Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven."

The best Irish sayings are the sayings of the people; the greatest Irish humorists are the nameless multitude who have never written books or found a place in national dictionaries of biography.

These men are devils alone, as the saying is, Homo solus aut Deus, aut Daemon: a man alone, is either a saint or a devil, mens ejus aut languescit, aut tumescit; and Vae soli in this sense, woe be to him that is so alone.