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'Will ye gang wi'me, Lizzy Lindsay, Will ye gang to the Highlands wi'me? Will ye gang wi'me, Lizzy Lindsay. My bride and my darling to be?'

-Ballads
'Lizzy Lindsay', opening lines.

The trouble is that I have to go with so much still to say.

- Be  la Barto  k
  Spoken on his deathbed. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 32:26.

Let my people go.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 7:16.

Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,Iwill lodge: thy peopleshall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the L do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDRuth1:16^17

I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 3:7.

David said moreover,The L that delivered me out of thepawofthelion, and out ofthepawofthebear, hewill deliver me outofthehand ofthis Philistine. And Saulsaid unto David,Go, and the L be with thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel17:37.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go.

- EmilyJane Bronte« 
  'The Night is Darkening Round Me'.

I must have two you knowto come and go.One to come, and one to go.

-Dodgson
  The King speaking of his messengers. Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.1.

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

- Edward Fitzgerald
 The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza 74.

'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.' 'I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

- Robert Lee Frost
  North of Boston,'The Death of the Hired Man'.

Some time, Rock, when the team's up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys^tell themtogo intherewith all they'vegot and win just one for the Gipper.

- George Gipp
  Last words, to coach Knute Rockne. Rockne told the team about Gipp's request in1928, when their fortunes were low, and inspired the squad to new efforts.'Win one for the Gipper' subsequently became a catchphrase throughout US sport.

Led go! You are hurtig be!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Just So Stories,'The Elephant's Child'.

   When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night

-Myles na Gopaleen
US   writer.   She   is   best   known   as   a   novelist,   but   has   also published   several   volumes   of   poetry,   and   essays,   critical writings and journalism.

  Go directlysee what she's doing, and tell her she mustn't.

-Punch

Go along and get along.

- Sam(uel Taliaferro) Rayburn
On politics as a process of accommodation, recalled by former Speaker Gerald R Ford in theWashingtonTimes, 24 May1995.