What’s In a Cliché

Does every cloud have a silver lining?  A recent article discussed the top clichés we use, and can’t seem to get out of our heads, the origins for many of these are handed down from our parents to us, and I’m sure they got them from their parents as well.

I took the most popular ones and tried to find out where they came from, here’s what I found.
“Practice Makes Perfect” Dates back to the 16th century, but was first used in the United States by John Adams in 1791
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again”  This first written record was found in American educator Thomas H Palmer's Teacher's Manual in 1840
“You can't judge a book by its cover."The phrase goes back to at least the mid-19th century, as seen in the newspaper Piqua Democrat, June 1867.
The phrase "two wrongs Don’t Make a Right" appears in a poem dated to 1734, published in The London Magazine
“Good things come to those who wait” Used, but probably not originated, by Violet Fane (1843-1905)
My mother had some interesting clichés that weren’t on the main stream list, Although she never acted on any of them, she used to say (when she’d had enough of our nonsense) “I’ll Box Your Ears and I Don’t Mean Gift Wrapped” or “You Think There’s No Hell For Hounds Keep Barking” and “I’ll knock You Up To A Peak And Knock The Peak Off”  I always laugh when I think of them.
I’m sure you have a few in your family too.

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