Posted on 07/29/2011 7:31:14 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
1 "There is method to my madness."
2 "Love is strong as death."
3 "In the twinkling of an eye."
4 "A plague on both your houses."
5 "Gave up the ghost."
6 "We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
7 "The wisdom of Solomon."
8 "As pure as the driven snow."
9 "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
10 "O ye of little faith."
11 "A cloud of witnesses."
12 "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
13 "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
14 "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
15 "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
16 "Seek, and ye shall find."
17 "Go, and do thou likewise."
18 "God helps those who help themselves."
19 "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
20 "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
21 "What goes around, comes around."
22 "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
23 "It is easy to despise what you cannot get." (The origin of the idiom "sour grapes.")
24 "There is no new thing under the sun."
25 "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
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So, who wrote these passages? The answers are at the link.
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I knew all the ones that came from Scripture, but not so sure of who said the others.
The “sour grapes” saying is in Jeremiah 31:29 as well as Ezekiel 18:2.
1 “There is method to my madness.”
2 “Love is strong as death.” Song of Solomon 8:6
3 “In the twinkling of an eye.” I Corinthians 15:52
4 “A plague on both your houses.”
5 “Gave up the ghost.” Genesis 25:8; Genesis 25:17; Genesis 35:29; Lamentations 1:19; Mark 15:37; Mark 15:39; Luke 23:46; John 19:30; Acts 5:5; Acts 12:23
6 “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
7 “The wisdom of Solomon.” I Kings 4:29; I Kings 4:30; I Kings 4:34; I Kings 7:14; I Kings 10:4; I Kings 10:23; I Kings 11:41; II Chronicles 1:11; II Chronicles 9:3; II Chronicles 9:22; II Chronicles 9:23; Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31
8 “As pure as the driven snow.”
9 “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
10 “O ye of little faith.” Matthew 6:30; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 16:8; Luke 12:28
11 “A cloud of witnesses.” Hebrews 12:1
12 “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
13 “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
14 “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
15 “When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
16 “Seek, and ye shall find.” (minus comma) Jeremiah 29:13; Matthew 7:7; Luke 11:9; John 7:34; John 7:36
17 “Go, and do thou likewise.” Judges 9:49
18 “God helps those who help themselves.”
19 “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
20 “Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
21 “What goes around, comes around.”
22 “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
23 “It is easy to despise what you cannot get.” (The origin of the idiom “sour grapes.”)
24 “There is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
25 “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”
Pretty cool ,Thanks for the thread.
#1 is an altered version of the actual Shakespeare quotation, which is Polonius saying of Hamlet,
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
[Polonius in an aside pondering how Hamlet seems insane yet has a rational purpose (perhaps) in what he is up to]
TNX, I did not spend time trying to find the non-Biblical quotes.
Might have missed one of those too.
14 is Matt. 26:41—but I missed #2
Yes, Jeremiah 13:23. Amazing how much in the Bible is used in common language.
Long time since grade school but I’m pretty sure #25 was Aesop.
Reminds me of a photographer who visited a haunted house. The ghost who lived there was a vain fellow and agreed to pose for a picture, but unfortunately there were problems with the equipment.
It seems that the spirit was willing, but the flash was weak.
-————> Running
In the twinkling of an eye.
I bet I can guess more than you.
People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
I missed one out of 11 of the Bible quotes, got all the Shakespeares and Aesops, but was confused by some of the others because they didn’t say there were other sources.
KJV: 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 24.
Shakespeare: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 18, 20, 21, 22
Aesop: 9, 12, 15, 19, 23, 25.
"And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women."14 “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Sorry, the title was poorly worded. It should have included “etal”. The link goes to the correct answers.
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