“…the vinegar of the law, then the wine of the gospel…”
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
Heaven Taken By Storm
“[Footnote] Livy informs us that Hannibal split the huge Alpine rocks with vinegar to break a path for the elephants. Vinegar was a high explosive in 218 B. C., but not before or since.”
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
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Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
“3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Tour to the Hebrides, Sept. 30, 1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 322–323 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
October 5, 1773
Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)