The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (451 page)

Watson, James Dewey
1928–

1
No
good
model ever accounted for
all
the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

Francis Crick
Some Mad Pursuit
(1988)

2
Some day a child is going to sue its parents for being born. They will say, my life is so awful with these terrible genetic defects and you just callously didn't find out.
on the question of genetic screening of foetuses

interview in
Sunday Telegraph
16 February 1997

 
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Watson, Thomas
Snr. 1874–1956

1
You cannot be a success in any business without believing that it is the greatest business in the world…You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Robert Sobel
IBM: Colossus in Transition
(1981)

 
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Watson, William
c.
1559–1603

1
Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State
(1602), being the first citation in an English work of a famous maxim.

 
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Watson, William
1858–1936

1
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter.

"April"

2
My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

"An Epitaph"

 
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Watts, Isaac
1674–1748

1
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour.

Divine Songs for Children
(1715) "Against Idleness and Mischief".

2
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

Divine Songs for Children
(1715) "Against Idleness and Mischief"

3
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so.

Divine Songs for Children
(1715) "Against Quarrelling"

4
Birds in their little nests agree.

Divine Songs for Children
(1715) "Love between Brothers and Sisters"

5
Come, let us join our cheerful songs
With angels round the throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs
(1707) "Come, let us join our cheerful songs"

6
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs
(1707) "Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ"

7
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs
(1707) "A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy"

8
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

The Psalms of David Imitated
(1719) Psalm 72

9
Our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
"Our God" altered to "O God" by John Wesley, 1738

The Psalms of David Imitated
(1719) Psalm 90

10
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.

The Psalms of David Imitated
(1719) Psalm 90

11
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away.

The Psalms of David Imitated
(1719) Psalm 90

 
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