The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

She’s the Broad and I’m the High;
We are the University.
‘The Masque of Balliol’ composed by and current among members of Balliol College, Oxford, in the 1870s;
in W. G. Hiscock (ed.) ‘The Balliol Rhymes’ (1939) p. 29. The first couplet was unofficially altered to: ‘I am
the Dean, and this is Mrs Liddell, / She the first, and I the second fiddle.’
7.147 Bruce Springsteen 1949—
Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
‘Born in the USA’ (1984 song)
We gotta get out while we’re young,
’Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
‘Born to Run’ (1974 song)
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true,
Or is it something worse.
‘The River’ (1980 song)
7.148 C. H. Spurgeon 1834-92
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want
a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well
said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.
‘Gems from Spurgeon’ (1859) p. 74
7.149 Sir J. C. Squire 1884-1958
But I’m not so think as you drunk I am.
‘Ballade of Soporific Absorption’ (1931)
It did not last: the Devil howling ‘Ho!
Let Einstein be!’ restored the status quo.
‘In continuation of Pope on Newton’ (1926).
7.150 Mme de Staël 1766-1817
Tout comprendre rend trés indulgent.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
‘Corinne’ (1807) bk. 4, ch. 2
Speech happens not to be his language.
On being asked what one found to talk about with her new lover, a hussar; attributed
7.151 Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 1879-1953
The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the
adversaries of that class.
‘Foundations of Leninism’ (1924) section 4/6