The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Lies snug
As a bug
In a rug.
Letter to Georgiana Shipley on the death of her squirrel, 26 September 1772 (skug squirrel)
We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
To John Hancock, at the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Letter to Josiah Quincy, 11 September 1783
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 November 1789
Man is a tool-making animal.
In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) 7 April 1778
What is the use of a new-born child?
On being asked what was the use of a new invention, in J. Parton ‘Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin’ (1864) pt. 4, ch. 17
The body of
Benjamin Franklin, printer,
(Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents worn out,
And stript of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here, food for worms!
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
By its Author!
Epitaph for himself.
6.78 Oliver Franks (Baron Franks)
The Pentagon, that immense monument to modern man’s subservience to the desk.
In ‘Observer’ 30 November 1952
A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.
In ‘Sunday Telegraph’ 30 January 1977
6.79 Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are
amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
‘The Golden Bough’ (2nd ed., 1900) vol. 1, p. 288
6.80 Frederick the Great 1712-86