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But as to risings, I can tell you why. It is on contradiction that they grow. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. Up was the heartening and the strong reply. The heart of standing is we cannot fly.

- Sir William Empson
  'Aubade'.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  In the Toronto Star Weekly, 4 Mar.

Your levellerswishto leveldownas farasthemselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 21  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

I saw his play under bad conditions. The curtain was up.

- George S(imon) Kaufman
Of  Alexander Woollcott. Quoted in Scott Meredith George S Kaufman and His Friends (1974).

Up, all of us, and to Billiards.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry,17 Jul.

UP YOURS DELORS

-The Sun
  Headline,1 Nov, supporting MargaretThatcher's speech in defiance of European Commission president Jacques Delors' wish for Britain to adopt the Ecu.