1. He has gone to join the majority – Petronius Arbiter (said of a man who had recently died)
2. I do honour the very flea of his dog - Ben Johnson
3. Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding - King James VI of Scotland
4. "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt
5. Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. Will no one free me of this turbulent priest? - Attrb King Henry II
7. Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha? - Ian Hay
8. Cave Canem - Beware of the dog - Petronius Arbiter
9. I have never a piece of toast/ Particularly long and wide,/ But fell upon the sanded floor,/ And always on the buttered side. – James Payn
10. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. – Robert Owen
11. We seek him here, we seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? – Is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel? – Baroness Orczy
12. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it – George Orwell.
13. Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker – Ogden Nash.
14. When Ah itches, Ah scratches – Ogden Nash
15. I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned – Ogden Nash
16. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art. – Ogden Nash
17. Beneath this slab / John Brown is stowed /He watched the ads/ And not the
road - Ogden Nash
18. The cow is of the bovine ilk / One end is moo, the other, milk. – Ogden Nash
19. It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen – Cardinal John Henry Newman
20. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off – Anthony Newby
21. It’s as large as life, and twice as natural – Lewis Carroll.
22. Peccavi – ‘I have sinned.’ – Message sent after conquest of Sindh – Charles James Napier
23. Nobody ever beats Wales at rugby, they just score more points – Graham Mourie
24. SIXTY HORSES WEDGED IN CHIMNEY – The story to fit this sensational headline has not turned up yet – J. B. Morton
25. This is adding insult to injuries – Edward Moore
26. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me – (Winnie the Pooh) A.A. Milne
27. When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold – Prince Clement Metternich
28. Italy is a geographical expression – Prince Clement Metternich
29. Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped – Groucho Marx
30. Because it is there – George Leigh Mallory (When asked why he wished to climb Mt. Everest)
31. We hear war called murder. It is not – it is suicide – Ramsay Macdonald.
32. My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you - Attrb Benjamin Jowett
33. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street –
Laurence J. Peter.
34. And so to bed – Samuel Pepys
35. Assassination is the extreme from of censorship – Shaw
36. If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find
something in them to hang him – Cardinal de Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
37. We called him Tortoise because he taught us - Lewis Carroll
38. “Contrariwise,”continued Tweedledee, “If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – LC
39. And some there be, which have no memorial – Apocrypha
40. Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore – Apocrypha
41. To see a World in a Grain of Sand, / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold
Infinity in the palm of your hand, / And Eternity in an hour – William Blake
42. Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen – Ambrose Bierce.
43. Do as we say, and not as we do – Giovanni Boccaccio
44. Aut Caesar aut nihil – Emperor or nothing – Cesare Borgia.
45. The great Unwashed – Attrb Lord Henry Brougham
46. I am still an atheist, thank God – Attrb Luis Bunuel
47. An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one
side of the case; God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler
48. I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy – Samuel Butler
49. We think as we do, mainly because other people think so – Samuel Butler
50. I’ve arrived, and to prove it, I’m here – Max Bygraves
51. And a woman is just a woman but a good cigar is a smoke – Rudyard Kipling
52. But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: / “It’s clever, but is it Art?” -
Rudyard Kipling
53. A man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity – Rudyard Kipling
54. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know – Lady Caroline Lamb (said of Byron)
55. Is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? – Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
56. Ils ne passeront pas. They shall not pass – General Robert Nivelle (Statement at Battle of Verdun, 1916)
57. Laws were made to be broken – Christopher North
58. That grand old man – Sir Stafford Northcote (of Gladstone)
59. Die, my dear Doctor, that’s the last thing I shall do. – Attrb Viscount Palmerston
60. How could they tell? (on hearing that US President Calvin Coolidge had died)
– Dorothy Parker
61. Festina lente – Hasten slowly – Suetonius
62. There is no alternative – Margaret Thatcher
63. J’accuse - I accuse – Emile Zola (Dreyfus Affair)
64. Consummatum est – It is finished – Vulgate
65. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man – George Meredith
66. Don’t give up the ship – James Lawrence
67. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I’ll
never know. – Groucho Marx
68. He has occasional flashes of silence , that make his conversation perfectly
delightful – Sydney Smith
69. Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise – Tobias George Smollett
70. Who’s your fat friend? – Beau Brummel (said of the Prince of Wales, 1813)
71. You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct – W Somerset Maugham
