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2. " .. with a task before me greater than that which faced Washington." - Abraham Lincoln, US President-elect, leaving his home in Springfield for Washington DC.

3. " ...So if they tell you "Banjo's dead", just say that it's a lie, He comes from where they breed 'em tough and "Banjo" will not die. As long as bushmen love a horse or wild black swans go by, As long as there's a Southern Cross, "The Banjo" will not die." - Edward Harrington

4. " Give us the tools, and we will do the job." - Winston Churchill, British PM

5. " If I were a Cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary Coat and bands and hymn-book too." - Bishop Samuel Wilberforce Impromptu Verse, also ascribed to William Makepeace Thackeray

6. ".. my conviction that the power to communicate is one of man's greatest endowments. I believe that all civilised life grows out of that ability, and the uses made of it. I believe that the improvement of man's ability to communicate his ideas is a means of improving life in all its phases, and that the progress of civilisation depends on this improvement. It was this very evident need ... which led me to organise the Toastmasters club." - Dr, Ralph C.Smedley, Founder, Toastmasters International

7. "...the ridiculous idea that peace could be maintained by defending ourselves with weapons we could not possibly use without committing suicide." - Neville Schute in "On The Beach"

8. "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

9. "A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King & Emperor." - Edward, Duke of York formerly Edward VIII of England

10. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

11. "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." - Arthur Miller, US playwright

12. "A good sheep paddock spoiled." - "King" O'Malley, of Canberra

13. "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again." - Alexander Pope (Essay - On Criticism)

14. "A man's house is his castle. .. " - James Otis

15. "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience" - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

16. "A rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein

17. "A sick feeling of repugnance and apprehension grows in me as I near Australia. If only I could creep quietly into the bosom of my family and rest there." - Sir Robert Gordon Menzies Private diary entry (in Auckland, NZ)

18. "A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it." - Denis Diderot

19. "A thousand ages in Thy sight Are as an evening gone." - Isaac Watts

20. "A verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Sam Goldwyn

21. "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke." - Rudyard Kipling

22. "A wonderful family is Stein; There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poetry's bunk, Ep's statues are junk, And nobody understands Ein." - Limerick, anon.

23. "All cases are unique, and very similar to others." - T.S.Eliot

24. "All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy

25. "All men who have turned out to be worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott

26. "Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have so deeply in one another's pockets that they cannot plunder a third's." - Ambrose Bierce (from "The Devil's Dictionary")

27. "An admirer of Mae West said, "Goodness, your diamonds are beautiful" Mae West replied "Goodness had nothing to do with it."

28. "An armed attack against one ... shall be deemed to be an armed attack against them all." - NATO treaty

29. "An officer directing an army unit to its position prior to the Victory march in Sydney, prefaced a reprimand to rowdy troops with the words "Gentlemen, gentlemen..." An unidentified Lance-corporal said ... "Gentlemen ! Now I KNOW the war is over."

30. "And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul." - George Meredith

31. "And so to bed." - Samuel Pepys, Diary entry "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." - Henry David Thoreau.

32. "Any man who hates children and loves whiskey can't be all bad." - W.C.Fields

33. "Any boss who sacks anybody for not turning up today is a bum !." - Bob Hawke, Australian Prime Minister The Day Aust won the America's Cup.

34. "Anybody who goes to a psychiatrist needs his head examined." - Sam Goldwyn

35. "Apres nous le deluge." - Madame Pompadour

36. "As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited ? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a good opinion of himself." - Anthony Trollope (in Phineas Finn)

37. "At 20 minutes after 4 in the afternoon, a shock of an earthquake was felt through the camp; The surgeon of the Supply and myself were then in the woods about a mile and a half from the camp...The shock did not last above 2 seconds. It came from the SW like the waves of the sea, accompany'd by a noise like a distant cannon." - David Blackburn, Master of the "Supply". Diary entry for 22.6.1788

38. "At last, Fortissimo !" - Gustav Mahler, on seeing Niagra Falls.

39. "At this place I found numerous particles of gold in the hills convenient to the river." - James McBrien, Govt. surveyor Diary entry

40. "Away that month despicable, Those days of dread and doubt, When the gale blows down the chimney And the oil is running out. Besides, I own a private cause to Call the time accurst - I'll have another birthday when It's March the Twenty-first!" - Phyllis McGinley

41. "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann

42. "Be of good faith, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." - Bishop Hugh Latimer to Bishop Ridley, at the stake.

43. "Be sure you're right, then go straight ahead." - Davey Crockett.

44. "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau

45. "But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet

46. "Canada is the linch-pin of the English-speaking world" - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, gives an address at Manor House, London.

47. "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." - Ogden Nash.

48. "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") - Marshal Pierre Bosquet observing the charge of the Light Brigade.

49. "Chance favours only those minds which are prepared." - Louis Pasteur

50. "Cherchez la femme" (Look for the woman) - Alexander Dumas "The Mohicans of Paris" Ch.3

51. "Cogito ergo sum." (I think, therefore I exist) - Rene Descartes

52. "Common iron sheds and columns of wood are good enough for a colony like this." - Commissioner John Thomas Bigge Advice on suitable buildings for Sydney

53. "Deep down, all human beings are really good." - Anne Frank, Jewish sufferer under the Nazis.

54. "Diamonds are forever" - Hubert Oppenheimer

55. "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked ?" - Baron Edward Thurlow.

56. "Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do." - Lord Palmerston, last words

57. "Dr. livingstone, I presume ?" - Henry Morton Stanley (Later commented that he couldn't think of anything else to say.)

58. "England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, I trust, save Europe by her example." - William Pitt, British PM at Lord Mayor's Banquet

59. "Every goddam day" (- asked if he read the Bible ) - General George Patton

60. "Every man over forty is a scoundrel" - George Bernard Shaw

61. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but not himself." - Leo Tolstoy

62. "Exercise is bunk ! If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick, you shouldn't take it." - Henry Ford.

63. "For de little stealin', they puts you in jail. For de big stealin', they makes you Emperor." - Eugene O'Neill

64. "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

65. "For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in Marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust." - Sir Thomas Moore

66. "For privileges shall have an end, but the people is forever." - Compte de Mirabeau

67. "For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do." - Isaac Watts

68. "Forbidden - Invested with new and terrible charm." - Ambrose Bierce (from "The Devil's Dictionary")

69. "Four be the things I'd been better without, Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt." - Dorothy Parker

70. "From Cooper to Copper" - anon, referring to Allan Pinkerton's former occupation of Barrel Maker.

71. "Give me liberty of give me death." - Patrick Henry, US Statesman speech to Virginia Congress.

72. "Give me liberty, or give me death." - Patrick Henry

73. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." - Inscription on Statue of Liberty

74. "Go west, young man." - Horace Greely

75. "Go west, young man." - Horace Greely

76. "God can stand being told ... that he does not exist." - J.B.Priestley

77. "God is alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project." - Graffiti, Pub, Greenwich UK.

78. "Guns ain't lawful, Nooses give. Gas smells awful, You might as well live." - Dorothy Parker

79. "Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter parliament with honorable intentions." - anon.

80. "Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my King, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." - Cardinal Wolsey Last words

81. "Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted. I wish I knew which half." - Sir William Lever

82. "having done now so long as to undo my eyes every time that I take my pen in hand " - Samuel Pepys (Last Diary entry)

83. "He (Bogart) cried at all his own weddings, with reason." - Lauren Bacall

84. "He could suggest in his pictures the Divine spark in every man." - Said of Rembrandt

85. "He died on 13.3.38, from almost 81 years of living." - Irving Stone Biographer of Clarence Darrow

86. "He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

87. "He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness and breeds a nest of sorrows." - Jeremy Taylor

88. "He thinks it's great. He's a driver, too," - Mrs.Denise Mills asked her husbands' opinion of her new job

89. "He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression." - Thomas Paine, English philosopher.

90. "Hello mums and dads !" - Dorothy Jenner (Andrea) Broadcasting catchphrase