The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (343 page)

Pearson, Lester
1897–1972

1
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.

speech in Toronto, 14 March 1955

 
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Peel, Robert
1788–1850

1
All my experience in public life is in favour of the employment of what the world would call young men instead of old ones.

to Wellington in 1829

2
The hasty inordinate demand for peace might be just as dangerous as the clamour for war.

in the House of Commons, 1832

3
I see no dignity in persevering in error.

in the House of Commons, 1833

4
Of all vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty which might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most delusory and contemptible.

in the House of Commons, 1834

 
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Peele, George
c.
1556–96

1
When as the rye reach to the chin,
And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within,
Strawberries swimming in the cream,
And schoolboys playing in the stream,
Then O, then O, then O, my true love said,
Till that time come again,
She could not live a maid.

The Old Wive's Tale
(1595) l. 75 "Song"

2
His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!

Polyhymnia
(1590) "Sonnet"

3
Goddess, allow this aged man his right,
To be your beadsman now that was your knight.

Polyhymnia
(1590) "Sonnet"

 
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Péguy, Charles
1873–1914

1
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Basic Verities
(1943) "War and Peace"

 
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Pelé
1940–

1
Football? It's the beautiful game.

attributed

 
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Pembroke, Lord
c.
1501–70

1
Out ye whores, to work, to work, ye whores, go spin.

Andrew Clark (ed.)
"Brief Lives"…by John Aubrey
(1898)

 
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