The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Never contradict Never explain Never apologize (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
Letter to ‘The Times’, 5 September 1919.
Favouritism is the secret of efficiency.
Inscribed in the log of HMS Vernon, in W. S. Churchill ‘Great Contemporaries’ (1937) ‘Lord Fisher and his
biographer’
Yours till Hell freezes.
Attributed to Fisher, but not original. F. Ponsonby ‘Reflections of Three Reigns’ (1951) p. 131: ‘Once an
officer in India wrote to me and ended his letter “Yours till Hell freezes”. I used this forcible expression in a
letter to Fisher, and he adopted it’
6.30 Marve Fisher
I want an old-fashioned house
With an old-fashioned fence
And an old-fashioned millionaire.
‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’ (1954 song; popularized by Eartha Kitt)
6.31 Albert H. Fitz
You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.
‘The Honeysuckle and the Bee’ (1901 song)
6.32 Charles Fitzgeffrey c.1575-1638
And bold and hard adventures t’ undertake,
Leaving his country for his country’s sake.
‘Sir Francis Drake’ (1596) st. 213
6.33 Edward Fitzgerald 1809-83
Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night
Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s turret in a noose of light.
‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) st. 1
And look—a thousand blossoms with the day
Woke—and a thousand scattered into clay.
‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) st. 8
Each morn a thousand roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the rose of yesterday?
‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (4th ed., 1879) st. 9
Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
A flask of wine, a book of verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness—
And wilderness is paradise enow.