dots-menu
×

Home  »  Familiar Quotations  »  2156 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2156 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2156
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:Many things happen between the cup and the lip. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3.
 
Note 1.
There is many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.—Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588). [back]