The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.
Bronowski Jacob 1908-1974
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any
day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Carroll Lewis (Charles L. Dodgson) 1832-1898
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
‘You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
‘And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
Carroll Lewis (Charles L. Dodgson) 1832-1898
Through the Looking-Glass
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly
happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
Elizabeth I Queen 1533-1603
(to leaders of her Council)
I will make you shorter by the head.
Elizabeth I Queen 1533-1603
(to William Cecil, who suffered from gout)
My lord, we make use of you, not for your bad
legs, but for your good head.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take if from him.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue
still;
While words of learned length, and thund' ring
sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around,
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
Goldwyn Sam 1882-1974
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
Henley W.E. 1849-1903
‘Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.'
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud:
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Just So Stories ‘The Elephant's Child'
Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's
musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose
... ‘Led go! You are hurtig be!'
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘The Old Fools'
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Major John 1943-
I am more a European in my head than in my heart.
Rodgers Richard 1902-1979
No Strings ‘The Sweetest Sounds'
The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear
Are still inside my head.
The kindest words I'll ever know
Are waiting to be said.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington'
I good grey head which all men knew!