The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
‘The Story of Rimini’ (1816) canto 3, l. 257
A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.
Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving ‘a glorious batch of ‘Examiners’’, in ‘The
Correspondence of Leigh Hunt’ (1862) vol. 2, p. 122
8.158 Anne Hunter 1742-1821
My mother bids me bind my hair
With bands of rosy hue,
Tie up my sleeves with ribbons rare,
And lace my bodice blue.
‘A Pastoral Song’ (1794)
8.159 William Hunter 1718-83
Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill;—others, that it is a fermenting vat;—
others again that it is a stew-pan;—but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting
vat, nor a stew-pan—but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
MS. note from his lectures, in J.A. Paris ‘A Treatise on Diet’ (1824) epigraph
8.160 Herman Hupfeld 1894-1951
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
‘As Time Goes By’ (1931 song).
8.161 John Huss c.1372-1415
O sancta simplicitas!
O holy simplicity!
At the stake, seeing an aged peasant bringing a bundle of twigs to throw on the pile. In Zincgreff-Weidner
‘Apophthegmata’ (Amsterdam, 1653) pt. 3, p. 383.
8.162 Saddam Hussein (Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti) 1937—
The mother of battles.
Popular interpretation of his description of the approaching Gulf War in a speech in Baghdad, 6 January 1991;
‘The Times’, 7 January 1991, reported that Saddam had no intention of relinquishing Kuwait and was ready
for the ‘mother of all wars’
8.163 Francis Hutcheson 1694-1746
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
‘An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue’ (1725) treatise 1, sect. 5, subsect. 16