The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

But grasshoppers are giants there:
They, in their squeaking laugh, contemn
Us as we walk more low than them:
And, from the precipices tall
Of the green spires, to us do call.
‘Upon Appleton House’ (1681) st. 47
Unhappy birds! what does it boot
To build below the grass’s root,
When lowness is unsafe as height,
And chance o’ertakes, what ’scapeth spite?
‘Upon Appleton House’ (1681) st. 52
’Tis not what once it was, the world,
But a rude heap together hurled.
‘Upon Appleton House’ (1681) st. 96
But now the salmon-fishers moist
Their leathern boats begin to hoist;
And, like Antipodes in shoes,
Have shod their heads in their canoes.
How tortoise-like, but not so slow,
These rational amphibii go!
‘Upon Appleton House’ (1681) st. 97
1.82 Holt Marvell
A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.
‘These Foolish Things Remind Me of You’ (1935 song)
1.83 Chico Marx 1891-1961
I wasn’t kissing her, I was just whispering in her mouth.
On being discovered by his wife with a chorus girl, in Groucho Marx and Richard J. Anobile ‘Marx Brothers
Scrapbook’ (1973) ch. 24
1.84 Groucho Marx 1895-1977
please accept my resignation. i don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a
member.
‘Groucho and Me’ (1959) ch. 26
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.
In Leo Rosten ‘People I have Loved, Known or Admired’ (1970) ‘Groucho’