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  •    That thou doest, do quickly.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Jesus to  Judas. St  John13:27.

  • Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

    - Robert Burns
      'Bruce's  Address at Bannockburn', stanza 3.

  •    Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceivingHOW NOT TO DO IT.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^7  Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.10.

  •    This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      'The  American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

  • Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millionslong forimmortality who don't know whattodo with themselves on a rainy Sundayafternoon.

    - Susan pseudonym of  Mrs Ronald McCrindle Ertz
      Anger in the Sky, ch.5.

  • Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

    -William Harrison Faulkner
      Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

  • My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. Theyare to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

    - the Great Frederick II
    Attributed.

  • Georgedon't do that.

    -Joyce ne  e Phipps Grenfell
    Catchphrase from one of her comic monologues, also the title of her autobiography,1977.

  • This will never do.

    - Lord Francis Jeffrey
      Of  Wordsworth's The Excursion (1814). In the Edinburgh Review, Nov.

  • And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what yourcountry can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

    -John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
      Inaugural address, Washington, 20  Jan.

  • En leur re'  gle n'e  tait que cette clause:. In their laws there was but this one clause:.

    - Fran c° ois Rabelais
    FAIS CE QUE VOUDRAS DO WHAT YOU WISH1534  Gargantua, bk.1, ch.57.

  • Love only what you do, And not what you have done.

    - Adrienne Cecile Rich
      The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems,'The Diamond Cutters'.

  • Do not do unto others as you would they should do to you. Their tastes may not be the same. 779

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:The Golden Rule'.

  • I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Lady Utterword to Hector Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act1.

  • We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 797

    - Samuel Smiles
      Self-Help, ch.11.

  • I know thisa man got to do what he got to do.

    -John Ernest Steinbeck
      The Grapes ofWrath, ch.18.

  • I don't mind how much my Ministers talkas long as they do what I say.

    - Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
      In TheTimes.

  • It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it And how I look when I do and say it.

    - Mae West
    Attributed.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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