The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they
please, and I am to do what I please.
Attributed
Ihr Racker, wollt ihr ewig leben?
Rascals, would you live for ever?
Addressed to hesitant Guards at Kolin, 18 June 1757
6.81 Cliff Freeman
Where’s the beef?
Advertising slogan for Wendy’s Hamburgers in campaign launched 9 Jan. 1984 (taken up by Walter Mondale
in a televised debate with Gary Hart from Atlanta, 11 March 1984: ‘When I hear your new ideas I’m
reminded of that ad, “Where’s the beef?”’)
6.82 E. A. Freeman 1823-92
History is past politics, and politics is present history.
‘Methods of Historical Study’ (1886) p. 44
A saying which fell from myself in one of the debates in Congregation on the Modern
Language Statute has been quoted in several places...’chatter about Shelley’...I mentioned that I
had lately read a review of a book about Shelley in which the critic...praised or blamed the
author...for his ‘treatment of the Harriet problem’.
‘Literature and Language’ in Contemporary Review October 1887 (often telescoped as ‘chatter about Harriet’)
6.83 John Freeth c.1731-1808
The loss of America what can repay?
New colonies seek for at Botany Bay.
‘Botany Bay’ in ‘New London Magazine’ (1786)
6.84 John Hookham Frere 1769-1846
The feathered race with pinions skim the air—
Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear!
‘The Progress of Man’ l. 34
Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise,
Clap her broad wings, and soaring claim the skies?
‘The Progress of Man’ l. 44
6.85 Sigmund Freud 1856-1939
‘Itzig, wohin reit’st Du?’ ‘Weiss ich, frag das Pferd.’
‘Itzig, where are you riding to?’ ‘Don’t ask me, ask the horse.’
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 7 July 1898, in ‘Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse’ (Origins of Psychoanalysis,
1950) p. 275
Die Anatomie ist das Schicksal.