Clan Anderson - Unofficial Scottish Clan Anderson site, featuring complete information on the Anderson name, badge and tartan.
Clan Anderson - Unofficial Scottish Clan Anderson site, featuring complete information on the Anderson name, badge and tartan.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Anderson Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anderson
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Anderson An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Anderson
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Anderson "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Anderson
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Anderson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Anderson
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Anderson "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Anderson
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Anderson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Anderson
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Anderson The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Anderson
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Anderson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Anderson
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Anderson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Anderson
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Anderson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Anderson
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Anderson "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Anderson
