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91quotable — quot·able …
92quotableness — quot·able·ness …
93quotlibet — quot·li·bet …
94another day, another dollar — Quot. 1897 links the form more days, more dollars to sailors being paid by the day: the longer the voyage the greater the financial reward. Later uses suggest that another day, another dollar occurs as world weary comment on routine toil to earn… …
95don’t care was made to care — Quot. 1959 gives the version of the traditional children’s rhyme found at Hackney, London. 1959 I. & P. OPIE Lore and Language of Schoolchildren iii. 50 To ‘don’t cares’ the traditional saying is: Don’t care was made to care, Don’t care was hung …
96conscience makes cowards of us all — Quot. 1912 is a humorous perversion of the proverb. Cf. 1594 SHAKESPEARE Richard III I. iv. 133 Where’s thy conscience now? I’ll not meddle with it it makes a man a coward. 1600–1 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet III. i. 83 Conscience does make cowards of us… …
97where God builds a church, the devil will build a chapel — Quot. 1942 cites the version of the saying found in George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs (1640) no. 674. 1560 T. BECON Works I. 516v For commonly, where so ever God buildeth a church, the Deuyll wyl builde a Chappell iuste by. 1701 DEFOE True… …
98killing no murder — Quot. 1657 is the title of a pamphlet asserting that the assassination of Cromwell, the Protector, would be lawful and laudable. 1657 SEXBY & TITUS (title) Killing noe murder. 1800 M. EDGEWORTH Castle Rackrent p. xliv. In Ireland, not only… …
99if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain — Quot. 1625 gives the anecdote behind this saying. 1625 BACON Essays ‘Of Boldness’ xii. Mahomet cald the Hill to come to him..And when the Hill stood still, he was neuer a whit abashed, but said; If the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet wil… …
100every picture tells a story — Quot. 1847 antedates the use of this saying as an advertiser’s catch phrase. 1847 C. BRONTË Jane Eyre I. i. The letter press..I cared little for... Each picture told a story. 1904 Daily Mail 26 Feb. 8 A London woman and Doan’s Backache Kidney… …