The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the L's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lhath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD Psalms118:22^4.

  If I should die, thinkonly this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Soldier'.

An'now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkan, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkan, To your black pit; But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkan, An'cheat you yet.

-Burns, Robert
  'Address to the Deil', stanza 20.

When I have pointed out one corner of a square to anyoneand he doesnotcome back withthe other three, I will not point it out to him a second time.

-Confucius or K'ung Fu-tse,'The MasterK'ung'
c.479  BC  The Analects.

Father declared he was going to buya new plot in the cemetery, a plot all for himself.'And I'll buy one on a corner,' he added triumphantly,'where I can get out.'

-Day, Clarence Shepard
  Life With Father, penultimate paragraph.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Time Must Have a Stop.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,10 Oct, alluding to Jeremiah Markland. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Mary lived by wondering what lay round the corner. I lived by knowing there was no corner.

-Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory)
  A Happy Man, ch.12.

Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man.

-Kelman,James
  How late it was, how late, opening words.

When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
  Commencement address at Bryn Mawr College. Collected in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

Martha and Jasmine smiled at each other†the future they dreamed of seemed just around the corner; they could almost touch it. Each saw an ideal town, clean, noble and beautiful, soaring up over the actual town they saw, which consisted in this area of sordid little shops and third-rate cafe¤  s.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
  A Ripple from the Storm, pt.1, ch.1.

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate.

-Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose
  Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

And it is that word 'hummy', my darlings, that marks the first place in'The House at Pooh Corner'at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Book review in the NewYorker, 20 Oct.

Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, Cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.

-Robinson, Edwin Arlington
  Dionysus in Doubt,'New England'. distribution  based  on  the  work  of  Keynes.  Her  works  include The  Economics  of  Imperfect  Competition  (1933)  and  Economic Heresies (1971).