Anon Quotes

• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• What you think of me is none of my business.

  Larry Winget

  Inspirational, Business, Thinking

  Larry Winget (2008). “The Idiot Factor: The 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Life, Money, and Business”, p.104, Penguin

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

  Lewis Thomas

  Responsibility, Reality, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Best friends listen to what you don't say.

  Samantha Norman

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Flesh, Faces

  "Heredity" l. 1 (1917)

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

  John Aubrey

  Fathers Day, Son, Blow

  'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'

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• Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

  John Aubrey

  Father, Boxes

  'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'

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• Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Inspiration, Losing

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

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• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

  William James

  Life, Death, Light

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Cat, Flesh, Als

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• I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Book, Exercise

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Ocean

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Fall, Eagles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

  Paula Poundstone

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

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• Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Breeze, Stirring

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.136

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• Like an army defeated
  The snow hath retreated,
  And now doth fare ill
  On the top of the bare hill;
  The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon!
  There's joy in the mountains:
  There's life in the fountains;
  Small clouds are sailing,
  Blue sky prevailing;
  The rain is over and gone.

  William Wordsworth

  Rain, Army, Clouds

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

  Clive Barker

  Believe, Two, Soul

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• If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Soul, Honor, Lost

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Nov 20, 2015

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• Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful, there a pint, anon, maybe, a quart or so, and returned to the shore like foundering derelicts. George's mouth had all the exclusiveness of a fashionable club. His breast stroke was a thing to see and wonder at. When he did the crawl, strong men gasped. When he swam on his back, you felt that that was the only possible method of progression.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

  William James

  Holiday, Mean, Responsibility

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