Quotable quotes

Thought-provoking snippets from the OED quotation files:

a sign of things to come?...

1750 S. Johnson Rambler, The computer..believes that he is marked out to reach the utmost verge of human existence.

...it's all relative...

1931 Arch. Otolaryngol., The term agranulocytosis has come into the literature because of its brevity.

...and the last word in good taste...

1970 N. Bogner Making Love, A first edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a moving-in present from his mother, really gave it class.