Immortal Words

In Border's the other day I found a book on sale called, "Immortal Words, History's Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them". It is surprising how old some of our current day quotations are. Seriously. Here are some phrases I bet you've heard used at least once in recent memory:

Familiarity breeds contempt.
A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
One good turn deserves another.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Do as we say, not as we do.
Face the facts.
See one and you've seen them all.
We must eat to live, not live to eat.

Wonder when these were first uttered? Each quote is assigned a time span, based on the life of their author. In exact order:

620-560 BC, Aesop
551-479 BC, Confucious
525-456 BC, Aeschylus
4-65 AD, Seneca, the Younger
66 AD, Petronius
155/160-222/230 AD, Tertullian
1313-1371 AD, Boccaccio
1473-1543 AD, Copernicus
1577-1640 AD, Robert Burton
1622-1673 AD, Moliere

But the one that surprised me the most is the second oldest listed in the book:

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Lao-Tzu, 600 BC

I was sure this quote was first made by Republicans.