John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2156 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2156 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (1577–1640) |
| QUOTATION: | Many things happen between the cup and the lip. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3. |
| Note 1. There is many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs. Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.—Greene: Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588). [back] |