“He smiled and said, 'Sir, does your mother know that you are out?”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) British writer and priest
Poem: Misadventures at Margate http://www.exclassics.com/ingold/inglegnd.txt
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“He smiled and said, 'Sir, does your mother know that you are out?”
Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845) British writer and priest
Poem: Misadventures at Margate http://www.exclassics.com/ingold/inglegnd.txt
“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 262
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“6075. When you are Anvil, hold you still;
When you are Hammer, strike your Fill.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : When you're an Anvil, hold you still, When you're a Hammer, strike your Fill.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“334. When you are an anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”
Little Mary, act III
The Women (1936)