Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.16.

La'  , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute¤  , Luxe, calme et volupte¤  . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Invitation au Voyage'.

On se fait une ide¤  e pre¤  cise de l'ordre, mais non pas du de¤ s ordre. La beaute¤  , la vertu, le bonheur, ont des proportions; la laideur, le vice, et le malheur, n'en ont point. We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; ugliness, vice and unhappiness have none.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

The L hath sworn, and will not repent,Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms110:4.

  Let all things be done decentlyand in order.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians14:40.

All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.

-Browne, SirThomas
  The Garden of Cyrus, ch.5.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

   How true it is, that there isnothing dead inthis Universe; that what we call dead is only changed, its forces working in inverse order! 'The leaf that lies rotting in moist winds,'says one,'has still force; else how could it rot?'

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.2, bk.3, ch.1.

Prose = words in their best order;öpoetry = the best words in the best order.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  Table Talk (published1835), entry for12  Jul.

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden lightthat showsneworderand beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

-Cornforth, SirJohnWarcup
  Nobel prize speech.

Lo! all in silence, all in order stand, And mighty folios first, a lordly band: Then quartos their well-ordered ranks maintain, And light octavos fill a spacious plain; See yonder, ranged in more frequented rows, A humbler band of duodecimos.

-Crabbe, George
The Library (published1808), l.128^33.

Remember that a paintingöbefore it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or someanecdoteöis essentiallya flat surface covered with colours assembled ina certainorder.

-Deniehy, Daniel Henry
  The¤  ories:1890^1910.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
   Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.

-Elizabeth II
  Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf  War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress,16 May.

L'univers†je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a'   une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.

-Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
  Entretiens sur la pluralite¤   des mondes.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for  Art's Sake'.

To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

-Thibault
Crainquebille.

England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

And the motive for recording these scraps of the past? It Greenspan is much the same motive that has made me a novelist: a desire to reduce a chaos of experience to some sort of order, and a hungry curiosity.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
A Sort of Life, preface.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

-Greer, Germaine
  In the NewYork Times, 24 Mar.