John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Appendix. (continued) |
| 10463 |
| What you are pleased to call your mind. |
| A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury’s opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, “Then sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.”—Nash: Life of Lord Westbury, vol. ii. 292. |
| 10464 |
| When in doubt, win the trick. |
| Hoyle: Twenty-four Rules for Learners, Rule 12. |
| 10465 |
| Wisdom of many and the wit of one. |
| A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock’s—“One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom.”—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473. |
| 10466 |
| Wooden walls of England. |
| The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with our Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.—Preface to the English translation of Linschoten (London). |
| 10467 |
| But me no buts. |
| Henry Fielding: Rape upon Rape, act ii. sc. 2. Aaron Hill: Snake in the Grass, sc. 1. |
| 10468 |
| Cause me no causes. |
| Philip Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act i. sc. 3. |
| 10469 |
| Clerk me no clerks. |
| Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe, chap. xx. |
| 10470 |
| Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes! |
| Alfred Tennyson: Idylls of the King. Elaine. |
| 10471 |
| End me no ends. |
| Philip Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1. |
| 10472 |
| Fool me no fools. |
| Bulwer: Last Days of Pompeii, book iii. chap. vi. |
| 10473 |
| Front me no fronts. |
| Ford: The Lady’s Trial, act ii. sc. 1. |