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.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms104:14^15.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 5:3^5.

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.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

-de Kooning,Willem
  In Bulletin, Pittsburgh International Museum.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin'day, or Warren's blackin', or Rowland's oil, or some o'them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sam Weller's father. Pickwick Papers, ch.33.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

-Dirksen, Everett McKinley
  In Life, 5  Jun.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

-Gainsborough,Thomas
  Letter to Edward Stratford,1 May, excusing himself for not yet finishing the portrait of him and his wife.

Some people find oil, some don't.

-Getty,Jean Paul
His entire submission when asked by a magazine editor to submit an article entitled'The Secret of My Success'. Quoted by L M Boyd in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar1991.

Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  Retaliation, l.11^12.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  Election campaign speech,18 Feb.

Give 'em words; Pour oil into their ears, and send them hence.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.4.

No young American in uniform should ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle East.

-Kerry,John F
  Speech in New Hampshire, 27  Jan.

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  Miami and the Siege of Chicago,'The Siege of Chicago'.

L'odeur du vin, o"   combien plus est friand, riant, priant, plus ce¤  leste et de¤  licieux que d'huile! The odour of wine, oh how much sweeter, more cheerful, pleasing, heavenlyand delicious it is than oil!

-Rabelais, Fran c° ois
  Gargantua, Prologue de l'auteur.

They didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.

-Taylor, Maxwell Davenport
On the KennedyWhite House and the botched invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Quoted in Ralph G Martin A Hero for OurTime (1983).

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

-Bojaxhiu
  In Time, 29 Dec.

To make a good salad isto be a brilliant diplomatistöthe problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Vera, orThe Nihilists, act 2.