The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (168 page)

Foote, Samuel
1720–77

1
Born in a cellar…and living in a garret.

The Author
(1757) act 2

2
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their boots.
nonsense composed to test the vaunted memory of the actor Charles Macklin (1697?–1797)

Maria Edgeworth
Harry and Lucy
(1825) vol. 2

 
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Forbes, Miss C. F.
1817–1911

1
The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

R. W. Emerson
Letters and Social Aims
(1876)

 
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Ford, Gerald
1909–

1
If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

John F. Parker
If Elected
(1960)

2
I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
on taking the vice-presidential oath, 6 December 1973

in
Washington Post
7 December 1973

3
Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men.
on being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974

G. J. Lankevich
Gerald R. Ford
(1977).

 
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Ford, Henry
1863–1947

1
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
on the Model T Ford, 1909

Henry Ford with Samuel Crowther
My Life and Work
(1922) ch. 2

2
History is more or less bunk.

in
Chicago Tribune
25 May 1916

 
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Ford, John
1586–1639

1
He hath shook hands with time.

The Broken Heart
(1633) act 5, sc. 2

2
View but her face, and in that little round,
You may observe a world of variety.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
(1633) act 2

 
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Ford, Lena Guilbert
1870–1916

1
Keep the Home-fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out,
Till the boys come Home.

"Till the Boys Come Home!" (1914 song); music by Ivor Novello

 
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