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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
91. "Here I stand. God help me, I can do no other." - Martin Lutherè
92. "Here we make sanctity consist of being faithful all the time and in faithfully performing our duties." - St. Dominic Savio
93. "Historians may explain Tobruk. The Eight Army has done better - it has avenged it." - Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the victory at El-Alamein
94. "History will absolve me." - Fidel Castro
95. "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, All Thy works shall praise Thy name In earth and sky and sea." - Rt.Rev. Reginald Heber
96. "Hope not much, and fear thou not at all." - Algernon Swinburne
97. "How Sweet it is !" - Jackie Gleeson catchphrase.
98. "Howdy, customers !" - Opening catchphrase, Bob Dyer.
99. "I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for." - Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th. US President
100. "I am perplexed." - Aleister Crowley, last words
101. "I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God that I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat that I were able to live anywhere in Christendom." - Queen Elizabeth I
102. "I believe that there is a very large continent which until now, has remained unknown." - Christopher Columbus
103. "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." - Abraham Lincoln at Ohio Republican state convention.
104. "I can set a laundry list to music." - Rossini
105. "I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been an American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, that I might have got here on my own." - Winston Churchill, British PM to the US Congress
106. "I do not know what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." - Sir Isaac Newton
107. "I do not like thee, Doctor Fell" - Thomas Brown
108. "I don't believe in princerple, But Oh I du in interest". - James Lowell
109. "I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant" - Ralph Vaughan-Williams of his fourth symphony
110. "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers (US humorist)
111. "I have a dream. ... that my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skins, but by the character of their actions." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
112. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." - Sir Winston Churchill His first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister.
113. "I have the heart of a King" - Queen Elizabeth I, addressing her troops
114. "I heard the mournful wail of millions" Fredrick Douglass, an former slave and US Presidential candidate (He lost the election to Abraham Lincoln) addresses the American people at Rochester, NY on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
115. "I know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality." - Thomas Babbington Macauley
116. "I love all my children, but some of them I don't like." - Mrs. Lillian Carter, Mother of US President Carter
117. "I love little pussy, Her coat is so warm," - Jane Taylor
118. "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself." - D.H.Lawrence
119. "I pledge you - I pledge myself - to a new deal for the American people." - U.S.President Franklin D. Roosevelt
120. "I pray you, master Lieutenant, to see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.". - Sir Thomas Moore, Last words, mounting the scaffold.
121. "I read over the music of that scoundrel, Brahms. What a giftless bastard ! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius." - Peter Illich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer Diary entry
122. "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." - Nathan Hale, at his execution by the British
123. "I regret that I have only one life to give for my country." - Nathan Hale, last words.
124. "I rejoice in the presence of death, because it is what makes life so brilliant and beautiful." - Orson Welles, dying words
125. "I shall return" - General Douglas MacArthur
126. "I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies." - William Pitt (Dying words)
127. "I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree." - Ogden Nash
128. "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree .... Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree." - Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"
129. "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother in law" - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
130. "I was disgusted that a model of a transparent woman has been on show in Sydney. Lectures on Physiology should not be given outside medical schools, nor certainly open to the public." - Mrs. S. Morrison, Brisbane QLD Letter to Australian Women's Weekly
131. "I wish to be no less than national in all the positions that I may take." - Abraham Lincoln Speech, Springfield Ill.
132. "I would like to be there, were it but to see how the cat jumps." - Sir Walter Scott
133. "I would rather have my political economy founded on the everyday experience of the puddler or the potter than the learning of the professor." - William McKinley, US President.
134. "I, too, had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult." - Dr. Albert Schweitzer
135. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson.
136. "If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nothing like relatives to do the business." - William Makepeace Thackeray "Vanity Fair" Ch. 19
137. "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him." - Volatire
138. "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." - Phillip Sheridan US General
139. "If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they would never marry." - O. Henry
140. "If this officer rises above the rank of Major, it will be a disaster for France." - Comment in career report of Marshall Petain
141. "If winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
142. "If you have great talents, Industry will improve them. If you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply that deficiency." - Sir Joshua Reynolds
143. "'I'll die, but not surrender', said the wild colonial boy." - Australia's first folk ballad.
144. "I'm tired" - Sir Robert Menzies on his retirement
145. "In fact, Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of life." - Oscar Wilde of Frank Harris, journalist.
146. "In the evening of this day the whole party which came around in Supply were assembled at the point where they had first landed in the morning. And on which a flagstaff had been purposely erected and the Union Jack displayed, when the marines fired several volleys. Between which the Governor and the officers who accompanied him drank the healths of His Majesty and the Royal Family and success to the new colony." - Lt. David Collins, Diary.
147. "Include me out." - Sam Goldwyn
148. "Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest things, sweetness and light." - Jonathan Swift
149. "Instead of this absurd division into sexes, they ought to class people as static or dynamic." - Evelyn Waugh
150. "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me ?" - Mae West Quoted in "The Guardian" 13.11.74
151. "It be necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in not believing, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe." - Thomas Paine (Age of Reason)
152. "It had many defects and teething troubles and when they became apparent it was appropriately re-christened "The Churchill". These defects have now been largely overcome." - Mr. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister In a speech to the House of Commons about a newly designed tank for the war effort.
153. "It is a good rule of life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." - P.G.Wodehouse
154. "It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain." - John Henry Newman
155. "It is brought home to you...that only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior." - George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier)
156. "It is important for a ruler to let people serve him." - Cardinal the Duke de Richlieu
157. "It is incident to physicians, above all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence." - Samuel Johnson.
158. "It is not where you are, but what you are doing there." - Petrach
159. "It is our business as honest men not to assume that what we like is what we ought to like." - T.S.Eliot
160. "It is very much better sometimes to have a panic feeling beforehand, and then be quite calm when things happen, than to be extremely calm beforehand and to get into a panic when things happen." - Sir Winston Churchill Speech to House of Commons
161. "It was people power, and above all, woman power." - Mary Robinson Newly elected President of Ireland
162. "It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human." - Will Rogers
163. "It's strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel." - William Makepeace Thackeray
164. "I've never worn a hat. But I will buy one and raise it to Vic Patrick every time I see him." - Tommy Burns, Boxer to reporters after being beaten by Vic Patrick.
165. "Jests that give pain are no jests." - Miguel Cervantes
166. "John Brown's body is a mouldering in the grave, His soul goes marching on." - Northern states Civil War song.
167. "John Franks, one of the bush rangers apprehended on Wednesday last, was ordered 50 lashes and the jail gang." - The Sydney Gazette
168. "Kerr's cur" (of new PM Malcolm Fraser)
169. "Kind hearts are more than coronets." "I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
170. "Kinkering Kongs their Titles Take" (announcing the hymn "Conquering Kings .. etc)- Rev. William Archibald Spooner
171. "Knowing nature never did betray the heart that loved her." - William Wordsworth
172. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."- Alfred Lord Tennyson
173. "Late last night, when we were all in bed Old lady Leary lit a lantern in the shed, And when the cow kicked it over, She shook her head and said - 'There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.' " - Traditional (The Great Fire of Chicago 1871)
174. "Lead me forth from this prison that I may give thanks to Your name." -(Psalm 142:8) - St.Francis of Assisi Last words.
175. "Lead, kindly light" - John Henry Newman
176. "Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on." - John Henry Newman
177. "Legislator - One who goes to the capital of his country to increase his own." - Ambrose Bierce (from "The Devil's Dictionary")
178. "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems that divide us." - John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address
179. "Let us drink to the queer old dean" (proposing the Loyal Toast)- Rev. William Archibald Spooner
180. "Life is like nothing, because it is everything." - William Golding