Liquide constet inter virum et uxorem amorem sibi locum vindicare non posse. It is clearly certain that between man and wife love can claim no place.

-Andreas Capellanus   fl. late12c
c.1185  De Amore, bk.1, ch.6, section 7.

It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  On  Africa. In the NewYork Times,16  Apr.

From the cradle to the grave, Even if I misbehave, There's a place for me On government subsidy.

-Anonymous
Quoted by a caller from Baltimore on Station WAMU, Washington,15  Jun1993.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.11,'Of Great Place'.

Well,I'm leaving thepoorold place, and itcuts as keenas a knife; The place that's broken my heartöthe place where I've lived my life.

-Baughan, Blanche Edith
  Reuben and Other Poems,'The Old Place'.

   A place for everything and everything in its place.

-Beeton, Isabella Mary ne¤  e Mayson
The Book of Household Management, ch.2.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:15^16.

   Inmy Father'shousearemanymansions: if it werenot so, Iwould havetold you.Igotopreparea placefor you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John14:2^3.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Shirley, ch.22.

All Dressed Up and No Place to Go.

-Burt, Benjamin Hapgood
  Song title, The Beauty Shop (music by Silvio Hein).

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

-Clare,John
  'I  Am'.

A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Kubla Khan'.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

Canada isnot reallya placewhereyouare encouragedto have large spiritual adventures.

-Davies, Robertson
  Interviewed by Peter C Newman,'The Master's Voice', in Maclean's, Sep.

For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Canonization', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

-Drake, Sir Francis
  Letter to Elizabeth I,13  Apr.

His colours laid so thick on every place, As only showed the paint, but hid the face.

-Dryden,John
  Epistle'To my honoured friend Sir Robert Howard', l.75^6.

   Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.5.

Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.4.