The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (148 page)

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Dyer, John
1700–58
1
But transient is the smile of fate:
A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.

Grongar Hill
(1726) l. 88

Dyer, John
1
And he that will this health deny,
Down among the dead men let him lie.

"Down among the Dead Men" (
c.
1700)

Dylan, Bob
1941–
1
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?…
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

"Blowin' in the Wind" (1962 song)

2
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall.

"A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" (1963 song)

3
Money doesn't talk, it swears.

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (1965 song)

4
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks like a little girl.

"Just Like a Woman" (1966 song)

5
Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me.

"Mr Tambourine Man" (1965 song)

6
Señor, señor, do you know where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?

"Señor (Tale of Yankee Power)" (1978 song)

7
All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

"Slow Train" (1979 song)

8
The times they are a-changin'.

title of song (1964)

9
Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand.

"The Times They Are A-Changing" (1964 song)

Dyson, Esther
1
The important thing to remember is that this is not a new form of life. It is just a new activity.
of the Internet

in
New York Times
7 July 1996

E
Eddington, Arthur
1882–1944
1
I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928) ch. 4

2
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they
might
write all the books in the British Museum.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928).

3
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The Nature of the Physical World
(1928) ch. 14

4
Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

attributed in Robert L. Weber
More Random Walks in Science
(1982)

Eddy, Mary Baker
1821–1910
1
Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
(1875)

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