The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home,
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
‘To Helen’ (1831)
4.74 Henri Poincarè 1854-1912
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no
more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
‘Science and Hypothesis’ (1905) ch. 9
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
‘Science and Hypothesis’ (1905) ch. 9
4.75 John Pomfret 1667-1702
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
‘Reason’ (1700) l. 112
4.76 Madame de Pompadour (Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour) 1721-64
Aprés nous le dèluge.
After us the deluge.
In Madame de Hausset ‘Mèmoires’ p. 19
4.77 Georges Pompidou 1911-74
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a
statesman who places the nation at his service.
In ‘Observer’ 30 December 1973
4.78 Alexander Pope 1688-1744
Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,
Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,
And solid pudding against empty praise.
‘The Dunciad’ (1742) bk. 1, l. 52
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
‘The Dunciad’ (1742) bk. 1, l. 93
Or where the pictures for the page atone,
And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.
‘The Dunciad’ (1742) bk. 1, l. 139