The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Drinka Pinta Milka Day.
Slogan for the British Milk Marketing Board, 1958
11.68 Katharine Whitehorn 1926—
I wouldn’t say when you’ve seen one Western you’ve seen the lot; but when you’ve seen the
lot you get the feeling you’ve seen one.
‘Decoding the West’ in ‘Sunday Best’ (1976)
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
‘Hats’ in ‘Shouts and Murmurs’ (1963) No nice men are good at getting taxis.
In ‘Observer’ 1977
11.69 George Whiting
My blue heaven.
Title of song (1927)
When you’re all dressed up and have no place to go.
Title of song (1912)
11.70 William Whiting 1825-78
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
‘Eternal Father Strong to Save’
11.71 Gough Whitlam 1916—
Well may he say ‘God Save the Queen’. But after this nothing will save the Governor-
General....Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm through the campaign for the election now to
be held and until polling day.
Speech in Canberra, 11 November 1975, in ‘The Times’ 12 November 1975
11.72 Walt Whitman 1819-92
Silent and amazed even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
As contending against some being or influence.
‘A Child’s Amaze’
Full of life now, compact, visible,
I, forty year old the eighty-third year of the States,
To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence,
To you yet unborn these, seeking you.
‘Full of life now’
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling!
‘Give me the splendid silent sun’
I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,