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272. "The number of deaths speaks for itself." - William Wilberforce describes the horrors of the slave trade to the British House of Commons

273. "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." - John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

274. "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde

275. /font>"The reason why so few marriages are happy is that young women spend their time making nets, not in making cages. - Jonothan Swift

276. "The shepherd would rather see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas day than the sun. - German proverb

277. "The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot." - James Leigh Hunt

278. "The word 'now' is like a bomb through a window, and it ticks." - Arthur Miller

279. "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel." - Horace Walpole

280. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil" - Gerard Manly Hopkins

281. "Their faces are indescribable .. V-shaped mouths with saliva dribbling from rimless lips." - Orson Welles, Radio broadcast.

282. "There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them." - Jane Austen "Mansfield Park" Ch.1

283. "There are moments in life worth purchasing with worlds."- Henry Fielding.

284. "There will soon be only five kings left - the Kings of England, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades and Clubs." - King Farouk of Egypt

285. "They are able because they seem able." - Virgil

286. "They seek him here, They seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven ? Is he in hell ? That damned, elusive Pimpernel." - Baroness Orczy

287. "They shall not grow old, As we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, Nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun, And in the morning ... We will remember them." LEST WE FORGET

288. "They use thought only to warrant their injustice, and employ words only to conceal their thoughts." - Voltaire.

289. "Things don't turn up until somebody turns them up." - James A. Garfield

290. "This time, like all times, is a very good one,if we but knew what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard University

291. "This was the first anniversary appointed by Act of Parliament to be observed as a day of General Thanksgiving for the miraculous restoration of his Majesty; our vicar preaching on Psalm 118:24, requiring us to be thankful and rejoice, as indeed we had cause." - John Evelyn, Diary entry.

292. "Those in the cheaper seats, clap. The rest of you, rattle your jewellery." - John Lennon, Beatle, To a Royal Variety Concert audience.

293. "Thoughts that breathe, and words that bind." - Robert Gray.

294. "Timeo danaos et dona ferentes" ("I fear the Greeks, even when they bear gifts.") - Virgil

295. "Tis an awkward thing to play with souls, And matter enough to save one's own."

296. "To be good is noble; to teach others to be good is nobler, and less trouble." - Mark Twain (Chairing a meeting in New York at which Winston Churchill was guest speaker. He wrote this inscription in one of his books, which he presented to Churchill.)

297. "To hear some people talk, however, one would think that the way to win the war is to make sure that every power contributing armed forces, and branches of these armed forces, is represented at all the levels of organisation which have been set up, and that everybody is fully consulted before anything is done. That is, in fact, the most sure way to LOSE a war." -Sir Winston Churchill addresses the House of Commons.

298. "To look at Lily is to imagine one is dreaming." - said of Lily Langtree

299. "To love is a taste of heaven below." - Edmund Waller

300. "To our last man and our last shilling" - Prime Minister Andrew Fisher Pledging Australia's support for Britain during World War I.

301. "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." - William Blake

302. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

303. "To the Devil" - Abraham Lincoln, on his wedding day, when asked where he was going.

304. "To the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain or a gallon of fuel." - Joseph Stalin

305. "Together, we cannot fail." - F.D.Roosevelt, US President

306. "Trick or Treat!" - trad. children's Hallowe'en cry

307. "Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield (sceptics) no more milk. and so they are gone to milk the bull." - Samuel Johnson.

308. "Tuesday 25th. Being Christmas day, Latd 42deg 16', Long 105deg 00'East. Wind fair, Weather Heasey, Dinned off a pice of pork & apple Sauce a pice of Beef & plum pudding, and crowned the Day with 4 Bottels of Rum, Which Was the Best Wee Vitr'ens Could Afford." - Diary Entry James Scott, Sergeant of Marines Sydney Cove. Christmas Day 1788

309. "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark." - O.Henry, on his deathbed.

310. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are." - Jane Taylor

311. "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me. "Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." - Robert Louis Stevenson (Requiem)

312. "Up there, Cazaly !" Australian Rules Footballer Roy Cazaly could leap to a height of 1.5 metres. This phrase, used by supporters to spur him to action, became a rallying cry of Australian troops during WW I, and is the theme of a recent folk song.

313. "V:From ghosties and ghoulies and long leggety beasties, and things that go bump in the night R:Good Lord, Deliver us." - English litany

314. "Votes are to swords exactly what banknotes are to gold - the one is effective only because the other is believed to lie behind it." - Lord Birkenhead.

315. "War is the ultimate obscenity. ... The total absurdity of two young men, unknown to each other, bearing no personal grievance, killing each other, was vividly exposed." - Senator Don Chipp Democrat Party leader on the Vietnam war.

316. "War is very cruel. It goes on for so long." - Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons "One is not born a woman, one becomes one " - Simone de Beauvoir

317. "War until victory" -Ayatollah Khomeinhi of Iran of war against Iraq

318. "We are about to make a forced landing in bad country." - Last radio message from "Southern Cross"

319. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us have our eyes on the stars." - Oscar Wilde

320. "We have got to know a man of God, Grigory, from Tobolsk province." - Tsar Nicholas of Russia (Diary entry) (refers to Rasputin)

321. "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw

322. "We have nothing to fear except fear itself" - Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural address

323. "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory..... We shall fight to defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and streets, we shall fight them in the hills, we shall never surrender. " - Sir Winston Churchill British Prime Minister announcing the events of Dunkirk to the British people.

324. "We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no man lives forever - That dead men rise up never - That even the weariest river, Winds somewhere safe to sea." - Algernon Swinburne (The Garden of Proserpine)

325. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. - Preamble, US Constitution.

326. "Well may he say 'God save the Queen', for nothing will save the Governor-General" - Ex - Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the steps of Parliament House after the order dismissing his government is read to the public.

327. "What an artist perishes in me." - Nero 68AD

328. "What God hath wrought" - Samuel Morse, the first telegram.

329. "What is found in the effect was already in the cause." - Henri Bergson

330. "What objection can be made to him who wishes to tell the truth and consents to die for it ?" - Robespierre, at his execution.

331. "What rage for fame attends both great and small, Better be damned, than mentioned not at all." - Peter Pindar

332. "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Inaugural Address

333. "When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, his best friends hear no more of him." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

334. "When Grant takes possession of a place, he holds onto it as if he had inherited it." - President Abraham Lincoln of General Ulysses S. Grant.

335. "When I am dead and opened, you will find 'Calais' lying in my heart." - Mary Tudor Last words

336. "When I am dead I hope it may be said His sins were scarlet, But his books were read." - Hilaire Belloc

337. "When one does nothing, one believes one is responsible for everything." - Jean Paul Satre

338. "Winter is icummen in Luthe sing Goddam, Raineth drop and staineth slop And how the wind doth ramm. Sing Goddam." - Ezra Pound

339. "With malice towards none; with charity for all.." - Abraham Lincoln, 2nd.Inaugural address

340. "Women and children first" - anon, aboard the "Titanic"

341. "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." - Phineas T. Barnum

342. "You have once again proved to me that there is a God in heaven." - Albert Einstein of Yehudi Menuhin.

343. "You may call it a coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atoms." - Lord Palmerston

344. "You will go most safely in the middle." - Ovid

345. "Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day." - Charles Kingsley (The Water Babies)

346. "Young man, you have hissed all my mystery lectures, and have been caught fighting a liar in the quad." (admonishing a student} - Rev. William Archibald Spooner

347. "You've got to spill their blood or they'll spill yours."

348. Big Ben is the name of the largest bell in the clock on the houses of parliament, London, not the clock itself. It was named by members of parliament after the stout Commissioner of Works at the time, Sir Benjamin Hall. Big Ben (The bell, not the Commissioner) weighs 12 tons and measures 2.7 x 2.3 metres. Until 1913, the clock was wound by hand.

349. Captain Cook wrote in his diary of the Australian aboriginals - "All they seemed to want was for us to be gone."

350. Sorry, some days are more boring than others. That's life ! D.L.C.

351. The following instructions were issued to passengers aboard the first KLM flight. "Don't hang over the side of the aircraft or bother your pilot. - Don't stick your arm or head suddenly overboard, you could lose your hat. - Refrain from alcohol several hours before a flight and don't eat split peas, beans, Brown bread or any food which could cause excessive gas in the intestines. - Visit the toilet before embarking."

352. Thomas Carlyle, Scottish author, says in his Rectorial Address at Edinburgh University - "Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind".SAYINGS "May I know Thee more clearly,Love Thee more dearly, And follow Thee more nearly." - Prayer of Richard of Chichester.