The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Author’ (1757) act 2
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a
great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘What! no soap?’ So he died,
and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the
Joblillies, and the Garyalies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at
top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the
heels of their boots.
Nonsense composed by Foote to test the vaunted memory of the actor Charles Macklin, in ‘Quarterly
Review’ (1854) vol. 95, p. 516
Between the muse and the magistrate there is a natural confederacy; what the last cannot
punish the first often corrects.
Letter to the Lord Chamberlain, 1775
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
On a dull law lord, in James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) vol. 4, p. 178.
God’s revenge against vanity.
To David Garrick, who had asked him what he thought of a heavy shower of rain falling on the day of the
Shakespeare Jubilee, organised by and chiefly starring Garrick; in W. Cooke ‘Memoirs of Samuel Foote’ vol.
1, p. ??
6.54 Miss C. F. Forbes 1817-1911
The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is
powerless to bestow.
In R. W. Emerson ‘Letters and Social Aims’ (1876)
6.55 Gerald Ford 1909—
I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
Speech on taking the vice-presidential oath, 6 December 1973, in ‘Washington Post’ 7 December 1973
Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great
Republic is a Government of laws and not of men.
On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich ‘Gerald R. Ford’ (1977)
If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take
away everything you have.
In John F. Parker ‘If Elected’ (1960) p. 193
6.56 Henry Ford 1863-1947
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the
present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Interview with Charles N. Wheeler in ‘Chicago Tribune’ 25 May 1916
Any colour—so long as it’s black.
On the colour choice for the Model T Ford, in Allan Nevins ‘Ford’ (1957) vol. 2, ch. 15
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.