Quotable quotes

Thought-provoking snippets from the OED quotation files...

what not to wear...
1903 J. Wright Eng. Dialect Dict., Musselled, poisoned by eating mussels improperly dressed.

...what not to forget...
a1464 J. Capgrave Chron. Eng., This emperour Claudius was so obliuiows at, sone aftir he had killid his wyf, he asked why sche cam not to soper.

...and what not to watch?
1706 A. Bedford Evil & Danger of Stage Plays, Such Sights, Bloodshed and Cruelty, being shewn on the Stage, do by degrees occasion the Spectators to be fierce and outragious; and Men, if I may so speak, do there learn to be inhuman.