Stitches

Is there any publication on where "sayings" came from....like "A stitch in time saves nine"?

Famous sayings are common and I suspect their history is interesting. Where did they come from: Such as: What goes around comes around. Fair to middlin. He who laughs last laughs loudest. The pot calling the kettle black. Mad as a hatter A chip off of the old block Other sayings, or books of sayings - do such exist?

Public Comments

1. Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, as revised by Paul Beale Also links I found on Google: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/meanings.htm http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ http://members.tripod.com/~mhttp://www.brownielocks.com/wordorigins.html ccurtain_2/genietips/tip2.html
2. http://www.wordsmith.org