Anonymous

Go to a separate section for 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.
•Black is beautiful.
- 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.
- in Musarium Deliciae, 17th century
•There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
•Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant.
Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you.
- gladiators’ salute, quoted in Suetonius, Life of Glaudius
•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.
•Gnothi seauton.
(Know thyself.)
- inscription at the temple of Apollo at Delphi
•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

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