Indexed in the public record
“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Widow Machree.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bee0b312e786b96da6556925aefe79ffc62f05b83ae5efe4adac1dfa36debfd2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Jonathan Swift
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.”
Miguel de Cervantes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“An oyster may be crossed in love.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Apt alliteration 's artful aid.”
Charles Churchill
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”
Charles Lamb
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.