Entry #179 in the Dictionary of Imaginary Quotations


“All wars proceed from a failure of common sense.”

Elene Wescovich
Russian mathe­matician and diarist
(1830–1892)

Did you spot the anagram in the quotee’s name, “Elene Wescovich”? Can you put the letters back in the right order? • The solution to last week’s quotee anagram is: “Time is ticking.”

Father, husband, friend, and writer by day; mostly asleep by night. Happily pondering the immortality of the crab.

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