If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea. Adams

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
On the Korean War. Quoted in  Joseph Goulden Korea (1992).

Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.1,1 Mar.

Thesewidows, Sir, arethemost perverse creaturesinthe world.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.335, 25 Mar.

Omnis mundi creatura Quasi liber et pictura Nobis est, et speculum. Each creature of the world Is as a book, a picture, And a mirror to us.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
c.1170  De Incarnatione Christi (Rhythmus  Alter), l.1^3.

Day by day natural science accumulates new riches† The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected† Everything has been discussed and analyzed, or at least mentioned.

-Alembert,Jean le Rond d'
  Elements of Philosophy.

StopThe World, I Want to Get Off.

-Anonymous
  From the musical by Leslie Bricusse and  Anthony Newley.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

-Anonymous
  Sign on desk of  American Express president Louis Gerstner. Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26  Jun.

Before you save the world, you've got to save your seat.

-Anonymous
  On the needfor legislators to keep in close touch with their constituents. Quoted in the NewYork Times, 2  Jan.

When the world was made, the rubbish was sent to Stockport.

-Anonymous
Quoted in Wolfgang Mieder Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Cliche¤  s (1984), in turn taken from Notes and Queries (1871).

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.43^5.

Not milder is the general lot Because our spirits have forgot, In action's dizzying eddy whirled, The something that infects the world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'Resignation', l.275^8.

The sea of faith Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Dover Beach', stanza 3.

   Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood. One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Stanzas in Memory of the  Author of ''Obermann''', l.93^6.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism First Series,'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

Hebraism and Hellenismöbetween thesetwo points of influence moves our world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.4.

We believe in a League system in which the whole world should be ranged against an aggressor† We do not think that you can deal with national armaments by piling up national armaments in other countries.

-1st Earl
  House of Commons,11 Mar.

I would rather see the old reservoir on Forty-second Auden Street or the original Madison Square Garden than I would any of the lost wonders of the ancient world.

-Auchincloss, Louis Stanton
Quoted in Carol Gelderman Louis  Auchincloss (1993).