He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me… – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Phisiognomy,” translated by John Florio; commonly moder

I can tell thee where that saying was born… – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night [I, 5, Maria]