Anonymous

"Virtue is the shoeing-horn of justice."

"What poor astronomers are they, Take women’s eyes for stars!"

"Who blurs fair paper with foul bastard rhymes, Shall live full many an age in latter times: Who makes a ballad for an alehouse door, Shall live in future times for evermore."

"Why, what is Love but Fortune’s tennis-ball?"

"With a host of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. By a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end: Methinks it is no journey."

"A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble."

"Faster horses, older whiskey, younger women, and more money."

"From Ghoulies and Ghoosties, long-leggety Beasties, and Things that go Bump in the Night, Good Lord, deliver us!"

"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

"In the year 1690, the same in which Ichabod Paddock was sent for from Cape Cod, ... some persons were on a high hill, afterwards called Folly House Hill, observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed "there," pointing to the sea, "is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread.""

"Love starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink."

"May you live in interesting times."

"O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground; St. Patrick’s Day no more we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen, For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green."

"Old soldiers never die — They simply fade away."

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

"Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise."

"Question everything; accept nothing without proof."

"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write it should be hard to understand."

"Rebellion to tyrants [or resistance to tyranny] is obedience to God."

"Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!"

"Remember the Alamo!"

"Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the king."

"Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules; Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these. But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compare, With a tow, row row, row row, row row, to the British grenadier."

"The 'Almighty Dollar' is the only object of worship."

"The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose."

"The two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they buy a boat and the day they sell it."

"There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: 'Why does a chicken cross the street?' Are you 'out of town?' Do you 'give it up?' Well, then: 'Because it wants to get on the other side!'"

"There was crying in Granada when the sun was going down, Some calling on the Trinity, some calling on Mahoun; Here pass'd away the Koran, there in the Cross was borne, And here was heard the Christian bell, and there the Moorish horn;Te Deum Laudamus was up the Alcala sung: Down from the Alhamra's minarets were all the crescents flung; The arms thereon of Arragon they with Castille's display; One king comes in in triumph, one weeping goes away."

"Think globally, act locally."

"Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear."

"What is mind?—No matter. What is matter?—Never mind. What is spirit?—That's quite immaterial."

"Whatever you have to say, my friend, Whether witty or grave or gay, Condense as much as ever you can, And say it the readiest way; And whether you write of rural affairs Or of matter and things in town, Just take a word of friendly advice— Boil it down."

"Au clair de la lune, Mon ami Pierrot, Prête-moi ta plume Pour écrire un mot. Ma chandelle est morte, Je n'ai plus de feu. Ouvre-moi ta porte Pour l'amour de Dieu."

"Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor, Quer feit i ert e justise et amor, Si ert credance, dont or n'i at nul prot. Toz est mudez, perdude at sa color, Ja mais n'iert tels com fut als ancessors."

"No one goes away and then comes back."

"Ni Dieu ni maître."

"Revenons à nos moutons."

"Εἴθ᾿ ἄπυρον καλὸν γενοίμην μέγα χρυσίον, καί με καλὴ γυνὴ φοροίη καθαρὸν θεμένη νόον."

"Ἦλθ’ ἦλθε χελιδὼν καλὰς ὥρας ἄγουσα, καλοὺς ἐνιαυτούς, ἐπὶ γαστέρα λευκά, ἐπὶ νῶτα μέλαινα."

"Adeste fideles læti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum: Venite adoremus Dominum."

"Cume tonas, Leucesie, prae tet tremonti Quom tibei cunei, dextumum tonaront."

"Enos Lases iuuate (thrice). Neue lue rue Marmar sins incurrere in pleores. (thrice) Satur fu, fere Mars: limen sali, sta berber. (thrice) Enos Marmor iuuato. (thrice) Triumpe, triumpe, triumpe, triumpe, triumpe!"

"Gaudeamus igitur, Iuvenes dum sumus! Post iucundam iuventutem Post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus."

"Illegitimi non carborundum."

"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief Course lie all the Varieties and Realities of your Existence: The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendour of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!"

"Le mort saisit le vif. Le roi est mort, vive le roi!"

"Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him."