The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

8.11 Bayard Taylor 1825-78
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgement Book unfold.
‘Bedouin Song’
8.12 Jeremy Taylor 1613-67
Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.
If you are at Rome, live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
‘Ductor Dubitantium’ (1660) 1.1.5; usually quoted: ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
As our life is very short, so it is very miserable, and therefore it is well it is short.
‘The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying’ (1651) ch. 1, sect. 4
How many people there are that weep with want, or are mad with oppression, or are desperate
by too quick a sense of a constant infelicity.
‘The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying’ (1651) ch. 1, sect. 5
This thing...that can be understood and not expressed, may take a neuter gender;—and every
schoolboy knows it.
‘The Real Presence and Of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament’ sect. 5, subsect. 1
The union of hands and hearts.
‘XXV Sermons Preached at Golden Grove’ (1653) ‘The Marriage Ring’ pt. 1
8.13 Tom Taylor 1817-80
Hawkshaw, the detective.
‘The Ticket-of-leave Man’ (1863) act 4, sc. 1; usually quoted: ‘I am Hawkshaw, the detective’
8.14 Norman Tebbit 1931—
I grew up in the Thirties with our unemployed father. He did not riot, he got on his bike and
looked for work.
Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 15 October 1981, in ‘Daily Telegraph’ 16 October 1981
8.15 Sir William Temple 1628-99
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must
be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
‘Miscellanea. The Second Part’ (1690) ‘Of Poetry’ ad fin.
8.16 William Temple 1881-1944
Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.
‘The Malvern Manifesto’ (1941)
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
In R. V. C. Bodley ‘In Search of Serenity’ (1955) ch. 12