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182. "Like being savaged by a dead sheep." -Dennis Healey, showing little regard for an attack (verbal) on him in the House of Commons.

183. "Lord Ronald said nothing. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode off in all directions." - Stephen B. Leacock

184. "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners."- Henry Fielding.

185. "Major Ross send down to ask if I would be so good as to let the Governor have our markee to take Sacermint in, which I could not refuse, & I am happy that it is to be in my markee, never did it receive so much honour." - Lt. of Marines Clark Letter to his wife.

186. "Man is born free, and everywhere is in fetters." - Jean Jaques Rosseau

187. "Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything." - Margaret Thatcher

188. "Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go." - Mrs.Sarah Hale (See 1863)

189. "Mary had a little lamb, It's fleece as white as snow." - First words recorded for Phonograph 1877.

190. "Mehr Licht." (More light) - Goethe, last words.

191. "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." - Thomas Jefferson Letter to Horatio G. Spafford

192. "Money - a blessing that is of no advantage to us unless we part with it." - Ambrose Bierce (from "The Devil's Dictionary")

193. "Moral force is, unhappily, no substitute for armed force, but it is a very great reinforcement." - Winston Churchill, British PM Speech to House of Commons

194. "My advice if you insist on slimming - Eat as much as you like, just don't swallow it." - Harry Secombe

195. "My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measure of our lives." - George Bush Inaugural Address

196. "My gifts are small - I've used them well, and discreetly." - Max Beerbohm

197. "My real opposition is myself." - Mohammed Riza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran Before his overthrow

198. "Nature made him, and then broke the mould." - Ludovicio Aristo

199. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt Speech to the House of Commons

200. "Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as we do now by accident. - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, on learning of his death sentence.

201. "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister Speech to the House of Commons on the role of the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

202. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, addressing the House of Commons, referring to the actions of pilots of the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

203. "Never make a defence or apology before you be accused." - King Charles I of England letter to Lord Wentworth

204. "Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you." - Henry Fielding.

205. "No greater sorrow than to recall in our misery, the time when we were happy." - Dante Alighieri

206. "No man in American history has attacked more people than you have, or in more violent terms, and yet no man that I can recall complains more bitterly when he happens to be hit. Why don't you stop caterwauling for a while, and play the game according to the rules. - H.L.Mencken of Upton Sinclair

207. "No man is justified in doing evil for the sake of expediency." - Theodore Roosevelt

208. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

209. "No pain, no palm. No cross, no crown." - William Penn

210. "No taxation without representation." - William Pitt (elder) to British House of Commons

211. "No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." - James McNeill Whistler In a legal action, over the price of a painting,he was asked "for two days labour, you ask two hundred guineas ?" This was his reply.

212. "Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise." - Sir Phillip Sydney

213. "Nothing is wanting but a few females of our own species to make the "Resolution" a compleate arke." - Captain James Cook last letter to England

214. "Oh, I listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking." - Bing Crosby

215. "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." -- General Douglas McArthur to US Senate.

216. "On Sunday, I ordered Jeronimus (Jeronimus Cornelisz, leader of the mutineers) to be fetched so that he, together with the other condemned criminals, would be able to hear the word of God." - Commander Francisco Pelseart, Diary entry.

217. "One can never be judge of another's grief." - Francois de Chateaubriand

218. "One quarter of all booty is to be distributed among the crew, and if any man lose an arm or a leg in solid service he should receive 600 pieces of eight or six able slaves." - Captain Kidd, Diary entry.

219. "Our true nationality is mankind." - H.G.Wells

220. "Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to get in." - Kingsley Amis

221. "Painting, like cooking, can be tasted but never explained." - Anon

222. "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone." - Edith Cavell Last words,at her execution

223. "Peace in our time." - Joseph Chamberlain, British P.M. on returning from Munich. World War II broke out one year later.

224. "Perhaps not, my Lord, but certainly better informed." - Lord Birkenhead, in reply to a judge who had said to him at the conclusion of a trial "I have heard your case and am no wiser now than when I started."

225. "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

226. "Pray - To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (from "The Devil's Dictionary")

227. "Public opinion is always in advance of the law." - John Galsworthy

228. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy." - Leo Tolstoy

229. "Remember the Alamo !" - Sam Houston's troops.

230. "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain

231. "Ridicule often smothers that which is noble." - Sir Walter Scott.

232. "Run the bastards over !" - NSW Premier, Sir Robert Askin to Lyndon Johnson, US President when anti-Vietnam protesters lay down in front of their car in Sydney.

233. "She (Bessie Smith) showed me the air, and taught me how to fill it." - Janis Joplin

234. "Six hours in sleep, In law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, The rest on nature fix." - Sir Edward Coke

235. "So little done, so much to do." - Cecil Rhodes Last words

236. "So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth." - Sir Walter Raleigh, last words on the executioner's block.

237. "Speak softly, and carry a big stick, and you will go far." - US President Theodore Roosevelt opens the Minnesota State fair.

238. "Such is life" - Ned Kelly (aged 25). Last words, on the scaffold.

239. "Thank God, I have done my duty." - Admiral Lord Nelson, Last words

240. "That's one small step for man; One giant leap for Mankind." - Neil Armstrong, US astronaut on stepping onto the surface of the moon.

241. "The aim of education is the knowledge, not of fact, but of values." - Dean Inge

242. "The almighty dollar" phrase coined by Washington Irving.

243. "The ass alone saw the angel, the others did not." - Savonarola, sermon at Florence, Italy.

244. "The atrocious crime of being a young man I will neither attempt to palliate or deny" - William Pitt, British Prime Minister (on being accused of being too young for the job.)

245. "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." - The Duke of Wellington

246. "The chief virtue of the postage stamp is that it sticks to something until it gets there."- Will Rogers

247. "The child is father of the man" - William Wordsworth.

248. "The cruelest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson

249. "The cure is worse than the disease." - Sir Francis Bacon.

250. "The day of the small nation has passed away, the day of the Empire has come." -Joseph Chamberlain, British Prime Minister Speech at Birmingham.

251. "The devil instigated me to do this deed, and I did it." - John Knatchbull, Last words, at his execution.

252. "The dread of want in a country destitute of natural resources is ever particularly terrible. We have long turned our eyes with impatience towards the sea, cheered by the hope of seeing supplies from England approach. But none arriving, on 2nd. Oct the "Sirius" sailed for the Cape of Good Hope with directions to purchase provisions there for the use of our garrison." - Captain of Marines Watkins Tench Diary entry, Sydney Cove. (1788)

253. "The dream alone is of interest. What is life without a dream ?" - Edmond Rostand.It is warm work, and this day may be the last to any of us at any moment. But mark you ! I would not be elsewhere for thousands." - Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen.

254. "The extensive patronage bestowed on this journal has induced the proprietor to publish the Herald daily, with an assurance that, as heretofore, no cost or energy will be spared in rendering the Sydney Herald not only worthy of the high position which it at present occupies, but still more useful as a vehicle of information, on all the great issues on which the prosperity of this colony depends." - Editorial The Sydney Herald

255. "The flame of French resistance must not and shall not die." - President Charles De Gaul of France

256. "The French generals told their Prime Minister and divided cabinet - 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some Chicken. Some neck !" - Winston Churchill in 1941 To Canadian Parliament

257. "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm. - Lord Macauley observing the House of Commons

258. "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm." - Thomas Babbington Macauley (Coining the expression "the Fourth Estate" for the press.)

259. "The gay motes that people the sunbeams" - John Milton

260. "The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address

261. "The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable." - H.L.Mencken

262. "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the basis of morals and education." - Jeremy Bentham

263. "The greatest pleasure I know is to do good by stealth and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb

264. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn." - Agatha Christie

265. "The heart has it's reasons of which Reason knows nothing." - Blaise Pascal.

266. "The humblest citizen throughout the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." - William Jennings Bryan American Statesman Born 19th. March 1860

267. "The humblest citizen throughout the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." - William Jennings Bryan Speech to US National Democrat Convention

268. "The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long we've forgotten there's any other way." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

269. "The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people." - John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

270. "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.