Anonymous Wisdom & Quotes
Anonymous Wisdom and Quotes are those whose authors are unknown and don't know who first said. This page is dedicated to those but does not include proverbs.- Don't sell America short.
- slogan ca. 1925 - 1929
- Am I not a man and a brother?
- inscription on the seal of the Antislavery Society of London, c 1770
- Ars longa, vita brevis.
(Art is long, life is short.)
- A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends.
- British pacifist slogan
- To play billiards is a sign of misspent youth.
- slogan ca. 1967
- To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- Garbage in, garbage out.
- Better red than dead.
- slogan of the British ban-the-bomb movement, based on comments by Bertrand Russell
- He that fights and runs away
- May live to fight another day.
- There's no such thing as a free lunch.
- Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant.
- Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you.
- Sic transit Gloria mundi.
(So passes away the glory of this world.)
- used in papal coronations
- God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
- Graffito
- Hard cases make bad law.
- If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it.
- (Know thyself.)
- Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. ( Who excuses himself, accuses himself.)
- Festina lente. (Hasten slowly.)
- Loose lips sink ships.
- World War II poster
- If anything can go wrong, it will.
- Murphy's Law
- Enough research will tend to support your theory.
- quoted in A Bloch, Murphy's Law, and titled 'Murphy's Law of Research'
- The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
- I am all that has been, and that is, and that shall remain, and no one unworthy has ever unravelled, loosened, or even touched the surface of my woven veil.
- carving on an ancient stature of Pallas Athens, cited in Plutarch's Lives
- The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
- cited in H L Mencken, A New Dictionary of Quotations