No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned† A man in a jail has moreroom, better food, and commonly bettercompany.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,16 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Ich musste also das Wissen aufheben, um zum Glauben Platz zu bekommen. I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

-Kant, Immanuel
  Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), preface to 2nd edn (translated by N Kemp Smith).

There was silence in the room. Then a voice, stunning as thunder, clear and common as a trainwhistleöthe voice of a ball-park announcer: 'If you build it, he will come.'

-Kinsella,W(illiam) P(atrick)
  'Shoeless  Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa', a short story later expanded into the novel Shoeless Joe (1982) and filmed as Field of Dreams (1989).

Get yourroom full of good air, thenshut up thewindows and keep it. It will keep for years. Anyway, don't keep using your lungs all the time. Let them rest.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  Literary Lapses,'How to Live to Be 200'.

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself uponhishorse and rode madly off in all directions.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
Nonsense Novels,'Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen'.

With a heavy step Sir Matthew left the room and spent the morning designing mausoleums for his enemies.

-Linklater, Eric Robert
Juan in  America, prologue.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  An Essay on the Principle of Population.

Thus methinks should men of judgement frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth increaseth, so enclose Infinite riches in a little room.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1589  The Jew of Malta (published1633), act1, sc.1.

In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'C.L.M.'.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth. Save the cricket on the hearth.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.79^82.

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  In the Paris Review, Summer.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre. The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

Books Do Furnish a Room.

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
Title of novel.

We have room in this country but for one flag, the Stars and Stripes.We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.We have room for but one language, the English language.

-Roosevelt,Theodore
  Message to theAmerican Defense Society two days before his death, 3 Jan.

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

-Rosso, Medardo
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here 'in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse'.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Square Egg,'The Infernal Parliament' (published1924).

How little room Do we take up in death, that, living know No bounds?

-Shirley,James
  TheWedding, act 4, sc.4.

Chosen bya group of men in a smoke-filled room.

-Simpson, Kirke L
Of Warren G Harding, presidential candidate. Recalled on Simpson's death in the NewYorkTimes,17 Jun1972.The'smoke- filled room' became a common phrase in presidential nomination.

In a room of the palace Black Mrs Behemoth Gave way to wrath And the wildest malice.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Black Mrs Behemoth'.

Here is all straight and narrow as a tomb Oh shut me not within a little room.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  Harold's Leap,'The Commuted Sentence'.