Britannia - Biographical article concentrating on Anne's favourites and the birth of the two-party system.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Anne ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Anne
"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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Anne I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Anne
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Anne I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Anne
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Anne Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Anne
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anne Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Anne
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anne The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Anne
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Anne Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Anne
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Anne Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Anne
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Anne I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Anne
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Anne "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Anne
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Anne We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Anne
