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  • The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes1:9.

  • Done because we are too menny.

    -Thomas Hardy
       The note left by  Jude's young son, who had hanged his siblings and himself.  Jude the Obscure, pt.6, ch.2.

  • Non enim rei effectus, sed efficientis affectus in crimine est. Nec qu× fiunt, sed quo animo fiunt, ×quitus pensat. Crime liesnot inthe deed, but inthe doer'sintention: it is not what was done, but the spirit in which it was done that justice should consider.

    -He  lo|«  se
    c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

  • What have I done for you, England, my England?

    -W(illiam) E(rnest) Henley
      'Pro Rege Nostro'.

  • You learn to love by lovingby paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

    - Aldous Leonard Huxley
      Time Must Have a Stop.

  • He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Of Oliver Goldsmith, who had responded to Thomas Evans's uncomplimentary open letter with a physical assault, and then published an apology in the London Chronicle. Remark, 3  Apr. Collected in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

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

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

  • The consumer, so it is said, is the king†each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

    - Paul Anthony Samuelson
      Economics.

  •    I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

    - Carl Sandburg
      The People,Yes.

  • When all is said and done, leading a good life is more important than keeping a good diary.

    - Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
      Diary entry, 8 Jul.

  •   So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankensteinmore, far more, will I achieve; treading the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

    - Mary Godwin Shelley
      Frankenstein, ch.3.

  • Come, gie's a sang, Montgomery cry'd, And lay your disputes a'aside; What signifies't for folks to chide For what's been done before them? Let Whig and Torya'agree, Whig and Tory,Whig and Tory, Whig and Tory a'agree To drop their whigmigmorum; Let Whig and Torya'agree To spend this night wi'mirth and glee, And cheerfu'sing, alang wi'me, The Reel o' Tullochgorum.

    -John Skinner
    'Tullochgorum', stanza1.

  • Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'Locksley Hall', l.117^28.

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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