The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (148 page)

Dyer, John
1700–58

1
But transient is the smile of fate:
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.

Grongar Hill
(1726) l. 88

 
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And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

"Down among the Dead Men" (
c.
1700)

 
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Dylan, Bob
1941–

1
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?…
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

"Blowin' in the Wind" (1962 song)

2
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall.

"A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" (1963 song)

3
Money doesn't talk, it swears.

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (1965 song)

4
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks like a little girl.

"Just Like a Woman" (1966 song)

5
Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me.

"Mr Tambourine Man" (1965 song)

6
Señor, señor, do you know where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?

"Señor (Tale of Yankee Power)" (1978 song)

7
All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

"Slow Train" (1979 song)

8
The times they are a-changin'.

title of song (1964)

9
Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand.

"The Times They Are A-Changing" (1964 song)

 
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The important thing to remember is that this is not a new form of life. It is just a new activity.
of the Internet

in
New York Times
7 July 1996

 
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Eddington, Arthur
1882–1944

1
I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928) ch. 4

2
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they
might
write all the books in the British Museum.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928).

3
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928) ch. 14

4
Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

attributed in Robert L. Weber
More Random Walks in Science
(1982)

 
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Eddy, Mary Baker
1821–1910

1
Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
(1875)

 
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