The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ (1871)
The Pobble who has no toes
Had once as many as we;
When they said, ‘Some day you may lose them all’;—
He replied,—’Fish fiddle de-dee!’
His Aunt Jobiska made him drink
Lavender water tinged with pink,
For she said, ‘The world in general knows
There’s nothing so good for a Pobble’s toes!’
‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes’ (1871)
When boats or ships came near him
He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled a bell.
‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes’ (1871)
He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska’s
Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!
‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes’ (1871)
‘But the longer I live on this Crumpetty Tree
The plainer than ever it seems to me
That very few people come this way
And that life on the whole is far from gay!’
Said the Quangle-Wangle Quee.
‘The Quangle-Wangle’s Hat’ (1871)
And what can we expect if we haven’t any dinner,
But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
‘The Two Old Bachelors’ (1871)
12.44 Timothy Leary 1920—
If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take
your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in
and drop out.
Lecture, June 1966, in ‘The Politics of Ecstasy’ (1968) ch. 21
12.45 Mary Elizabeth Lease 1853-1933
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
Attributed
12.46 F. R. Leavis 1895-1978
The common pursuit.