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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua (ch. XI) Order and system are nobler things than power. - John Ruskin Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions. - John Godfrey Saxe Observe degree, priority, and place. - William Shakespeare Order gave each thing view. - William Shakespeare You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. - William Shakespeare Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at V, i) The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at I, iii) The gods love those of ordered soul. - Sophocles Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. - Robert Southey As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad. - Thomas Tusser, Points of Huswifery--Huswifery Admonitions (XII, p. 251) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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