Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — Misquotations. [ARTICLE]

Misquotations .

“’When Creek meets Greek, then | comes the tug of war,* ” said a young ; man. “You are wrong in that quotation,” ! his companion objected. “That is one of a number of famous sayings that are misquoted ahVays. It is from Nathaniel Lee, arid its rjgiit reading is, I ‘When Greeks joined Creeks, then was | the tug of war.’ i “Another misquotation is, ’lt’s an ill | wind that blows nobody any good.’ I This is from Thomas Tasser, a sixi teentli century worthy, and it should i run, ‘lt’s an ill wind that turns none to good.’ “ ‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ is from 1 Lord Brooke, but it was ‘Out of mind las soi>n as out of sight' as Lord Brooke ! wrote it. “ ‘First in war, first in peace aud first in the hearts of his countrymen’ should run, ‘First in war, first in peace land first in the hearts of his fellow | citizens.’ This famous sentence is from la resolution laid before the house of | representatives in 1700 by General i Richard Lee.'*