The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Devonshire’ p. 261.
Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days:
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Written the night before his death, and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster. V. B. Heltzel
‘Ralegh’s “Even such is time”’ in ‘Huntingdon Library Bulletin’ no. 10 (October 1936) p. 185
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
‘The History of the World’ (1614) preface
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply
strike out his teeth.
‘The History of the World’ (1614) preface
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!...thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all
the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic
jacet.
‘The History of the World’ (1614) bk. 5, ch. 6, 12
’Tis a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills.
On feeling the edge of the axe prior to his execution, in David Hume ‘History of Great Britain’ (1754) vol. 1,
ch. 4, p. 72
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.
At his execution, on being asked which way he preferred to lay his head, in William Stebbing ‘Sir Walter
Raleigh’ (1891) ch. 30
I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell.
Parting words, in Edward Thompson ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’ (1935) ch. 26
6.7 Sir Walter Raleigh 1861-1922
In examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
‘Laughter from a Cloud’ (1923) ‘Some Thoughts on Examinations’
We could not lead a pleasant life,
And ’twould be finished soon,
If peas were eaten with the knife,
And gravy with the spoon.
Eat slowly: only men in rags
And gluttons old in sin
Mistake themselves for carpet bags
And tumble victuals in.
‘Stans Puer ad Mensam’ (1923)