Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

-Allingham, Margery Louise
  Flowers for the Judge, ch.4.

The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.6.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  Television interview, 21 Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.

-Anonymous
c.1500  'To a Boy'. Translated from the Irish by Michael O'Donovan ('Frank O'Connor').

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.85^8.

F E Smith is very clever, but sometimes he lets his brains go to his head. 36

-Asquith, Margot
Quoted in The Wit of the Asquiths (published1974).

   Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Lullaby'.

Well if you fellows feel so strongly in favour, on my head be it.

-Balcon, Michael
Quoted in David Puttnam Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema (1984), preface.

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'.

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', opening stanzas.

And the L God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 3:14^15.

He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 5:25^8.

Go up, thou bald head.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 2:23.

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:30.

   The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 25:21^2.

And Jesus saith unto him,The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 8:20.

Best bloody place is bloody bed, With bloody ice on bloody head, You might as well be bloody dead, In bloody Orkney.

-Blair, Hamish pseudonym of  Andrew James Fraser Blair
  'The Bloody Orkneys', last stanza. First published in Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse,'Queer People'.

Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 23:5.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.

-Burns, Robert
  'For a' that and a' that', stanza1.