Easier said than done

Posted by ESC March 12, 2003In reply to Easier said than done posted by sax on March 12, 2003

How did this phrase originate? Thank you
Saxon

I don't know, but it's old.

EASIER SAID THAN DONE - "More difficult to carry out than contemplate. Sometimes it is 'sooner said than done,' but now wording appears oftener in 'no sooner said than done,' which has quite a different meaning. As 'easier' it was in the language by 1483 in the (book) 'Vulgaria'" 'It is easyer to saye than to do.'" From The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).