The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Up and down the City Road,
In and out the Eagle,
That’s the way the money goes—
Pop goes the weasel!
‘Pop Goes the Weasel’ (1853 song)
1.57 Winnie Mandela 1936—
With that stick of matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country.
Speech in black townships, 14 April 1986, in ‘Guardian’ 15 April 1986
1.58 Osip Mandelstam 1891-1938
Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
‘Selected Poems’ (1973, translated by D. McDuff) p. 129 ‘Poems Published Posthumously’ (written 1934)
1.59 Manilius (Marcus Manilius)
Eripuitque Jovi fulmen viresque tonandi,
et sonitum ventis concessit, nubibus ignem.
And snatched from Jove the lightning shaft and power to thunder, and attributed the noise to
the winds, the flame to the clouds.
‘Astronomica’ bk. 1, l. 104 (on human intelligence)
1.60 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1909—
Fasten your seat-belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.
Spoken by Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’ (1950 film)
1.61 Mrs Manley 1663-1724
No time like the present.
‘The Lost Lover’ (1696) act 4, sc. 1
1.62 Horace Mann 1796-1859
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
‘Lectures and Reports on Education’ (1867 ed.) lecture 7
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty
diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
‘Lost, Two Golden Hours’
1.63 Thomas Mann 1875-1955
Our capacity for disgust, let me observe, is in proportion to our desires; that is in proportion to
the intensity of our attachment to the things of this world.
‘The Confessions of Felix Krull’ (1954) pt. 1, ch. 5
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to