O ye'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye, But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes, Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond.

-Anonymous
  'The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond', chorus and stanza1. The author was a  Jacobite imprisoned in Carlisle.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that when a man runs the wrong way, the more active and swift he is the further he will go astray.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Novum Organum.

And see ye not yon braid, braid road, That lies across the lily leven? That is the path of Wickedness, Though some call it the Road to Heaven.

-Ballads
'Thomas the Rhymer'.

L'amour a son instinct, il sait trouver le chemin du coeur comme le plus faible insecte marche a'   sa fleur avec une irre¤  sistible volonte¤   qui ne s'e¤  pouvante de rien. Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves towarditsflowerbyanirresistiblewillwhichfearsnothing.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Femme de trente ans.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

-Bevan, Aneurin
  In the Observer, Dec.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'The Rolling English Road'.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'The Rolling English Road'.

You ask what is our aim. I can answer in one wordö victory.Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Radio broadcast,1 Oct.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.6.

Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!

-Cowper,William
  Olney Hymns,'Walking with God'.

I am convinced that we are going to make the whole road and put this thing in the funny pages of the history books.

-Dean,John
  Taped conversation with the President, Feb.

Science and technology, like all original creations of the human spirit, are unpredictable. If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either topushitforwardor tostop it, isgambling inhumanlives.

-Dyson, FreemanJ(ohn)
  Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

I ask you to look both ways.For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

-Eddington, SirArthur Stanley
  Stars and  Atoms, lecture1.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Rock, pt.1.

   There is no'royal road'to geometry.

-Euclid   4c
c.300  BC  Response to Ptolemy I, when asked if there were an easier way to solve theorems. Quotedin Proclus Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa, prologue.

There, I believed, lay the greatest secrets of the past yet preserved inour world of today.Ihad cometotheturn of the road; and for better or worse I chose the forest path. 319

-Fawcett, Percy Harrison
  Of South  America. Collected in Brian Fawcett (ed) Exploration Fawcett (1953).

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

-Fern, Fanny ne¤  e Willis
  Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, Second Series,'Hungry Husbands'. Often quoted as'The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.'

For lust of knowing what should not be known, We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'The Golden  Journey to Samarkand', epilogue.