List some anagrams (transposals of a word, name or phrase into another with a closely related meaning).

The anagrams listed below are divided between words and phrases, names
and quotations.  If known, the originator is given.

active volcanoes, the -> cones evict hot lava
admirer -> married
anagrams -> ars magna (Latin for `great art')
angered -> enraged (Kenneth, 3 Jan 1899, "The Ardmore Puzzler")
animosity -> is no amity
antique furniture stores -> are in quest of utter ruins
apt -> pat (King Carnival, 1905, Philadelphia "Telegraph")
artesian wells, the -> water's in all these
astronomers -> moon starers (Farmers Almanac, 1821, "The Enigma")
astronomical observations -> to scan a visible star or moon
belligerents -> rebelling set
blandishment -> blinds the man (Kee Pon, Dec 1917, "The Enigma")
butterfly -> flutter-by 
cabaret -> a bar, etc. (Hoho, Dec 1941, "The Enigma")
cafeteria, the -> fact: I eat here (Travv, Sept 1976, "The Enigma")
caste -> a sect
census enumerators, the -> these surname counters
christmas tree -> search, set, trim
circumstantial evidence -> actual crime isn't evinced
clothespins -> so let's pinch
cockroach, the -> cook, catch her
committees -> cost me time
compassionateness -> stamps one as so nice
compulsory education law, the -> you must learn; police do watch
considerate -> care is noted
contemplation -> on mental topic
contradiction -> accord not in it (E. Tyron)
conversation -> voices rant on (Sam Weller, Dec 1898)
countryside, the -> no city dust here
debit card -> bad credit (Mike Morton)
debutantes -> bud at teens (?, 1925, "Real Puzzles")
decimal point, a -> I'm a dot in place (A. Chem, Aug 1928, "The Enigma")
declaration -> an oral edict
delicatessen -> ensliced eats (Anonyme, Oct 1921, "The Enigma")
desegregation -> Negroes get aid (Pacifico, July 1956, "The Enigma")
desperation -> a rope ends it
detectives, the -> detect thieves
diplomacy -> mad policy (Jemand, Jan 1916, "The Enigma")
domesticated animal, a -> docile, as a man tamed it
dormitory -> dirty room (TH, 2 May 1899, "Complications," in "Inter-Ocean")
earthquakes, the -> that queer shake
eleven plus two -> twelve plus one
endearment -> tender name (Jo Mullins, 23 Sep 1899, "The Ardmore Puzzler")
evangelist -> evil's agent
eyes, the -> they see (Anonyme, 15 Jan 1896, "The Oracle")
families -> life's aim
fragile -> e.g., frail (Hi Kerr, June 1926, "The Enigma")
gentleman, a -> elegant man (Nypho, Aug 1911, "The Enigma")
gold and silver -> grand old evils
greyhound -> hey, dog, run! (King Carnival, Dec 1898, "The Enigma")
hibernated -> bear hit den (Viking, Mar 1934, "The Enigma")
hibernates -> the bear's in
hospital ambulance, the -> a cab, I hustle to help man
hypochondriac -> cry "ohh, Doc ... pain" (Wabbit, Feb 1990, "The Enigma")
incomprehensible -> problem in Chinese (Gemini, July 1929, "The Enigma")
inconsistent -> n is, n is not, etc. (Wrong Font, Dec 1943, "The Enigma")
indomitableness -> endless ambition
insurance policies -> coin is in sure place
lawyers -> sly ware
long distance telephones -> toll gained on speech sent
lost paradise, the -> Earth's ideal spot
married man, the -> I'm her darn mate
maternity hospital, the -> type that mothers ail in
midnight -> dim thing
mother-in-law -> woman Hitler (Nypho, Apr 1936, "The Enigma")
national legislators -> a long senatorial list
negation -> get a "no" in (Yercas, Dec 1926, "The Enigma")
nudist colony, the -> no untidy clothes (Ellsworth, Oct 1933, "The Enigma")
old masters -> art's models (Traddles, Dec 1898, "The Enigma")
one's birthday suit -> this nudity so bare
ordained minister, an -> I ranted, "Admire no sin!"
our father who art in heaven -> in woe, haven for a hurt heart
parenthesis -> phrase set in
pastorship -> parish post (Kea, Oct 1994, "The Enigma")
pat -> tap
paternal -> parental
pittance -> a cent tip (Duke, June 1913, "The Enigma")
point -> on tip
prosecutors -> court posers
protectionism -> nice to imports (Hercules, Feb 1928, "The Enigma")
public art galleries, the -> large picture halls, I bet
punishment -> nine thumps
pyramids of Egypt, the -> thy prim tops defy age
railroad train, the -> Hi! I rattle and roar
received payment -> every cent paid me (D. C. Ver, 14 July 1897, "Golden Days")
relief pitcher, the -> fierce hitter? help! (Larry, Nov 1974, "The Enigma")
remuneration -> our man earn it
routine -> I, one rut
seclusion -> close us in
semaphore -> see arm hop
semolina -> is no meal
sentence of death, a -> faces one at the end
seraglios -> girl oases (Ab Struse, Apr 1979, "The Enigma")
sexual intercourse -> relax, enjoy coitus (Dmitri Borgmann, May 1974, "Word Ways")
shoplifter, a -> has to pilfer
slot machines -> cash lost in 'em
snooze alarms -> Alas! No more z's
soaring gun death -> a dangerous thing (Alan Stillson, May 2000)
softheartedness -> often sheds tears
software -> swear oft
statue of liberty -> built to stay free
steward, a -> draws tea (Panache, July 1994, "The Enigma")
stormy weather -> showery matter (Baful, July 1964, "The Enigma")
stutterer, the -> utters "t-there" (Ulk, June 1992, "The Enigma")
submarine -> buries man
sunbathe -> heat buns (Double-H, Jan 1984, "The Enigma")
tantrums -> must rant
telephone girl, a -> repeating "hello"
theological seminaries -> sole aim: teach religions
therapeutics -> apt is the cure
twinges -> we sting
unconventionalities -> unite in novel actions (?, 1925, "Real Puzzles")
upholsterers -> restore plush
vacation times -> I'm not as active
waitress -> a stew, Sir? (Osaple, July 1948, "The Enigma")
wild oats -> sow it, lad (Remardo, Mar 1917, "The Enigma")
the married man -> I'm her darn mate

Alec Guinness -> genuine class (Dick Cavett)
Anu Garg's home page -> a huge rampage song (Shama & Saif Patel)
Armageddon -> mad god near (Fanacro, Oct 1973, "The Enigma")
Christianity -> charity's in it (ALS, 1 Aug 1905, "The Ardmore Puzzler")
Clint Eastwood -> old west action
Conservative Party, the -> teacher in vast poverty
Declaration of Independence, the -> co-penned edict held a nation free
Disraeli -> I lead, Sir.
Edison Incandescent Light -> connected inside thin glass
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the -> a dictionary can be elephantic
Episcopalianism -> claim a pope is sin
Florence Nightingale -> Flit on, cheering angel
George Bush -> he bugs gore (Mike Morton)
George Herbert Walker Bush -> huge berserk rebel warthog (Mike Morton)
Great New York Rapid Transit Tunnel, the -> giant work in street, partly underneath
H. M. S. Pinafore -> name for a ship (Mangie, Sept 1975, "The Enigma")
Hilton, the -> hint: hotel
Internet Anagram Server -> isn't re-arrangement rave?
Leaning Tower of Pisa, the -> what a foreign stone pile!
Leroy Newton Gingrich -> yon right-winger clone
MacDonalds -> clam and sod
Margaret Hilda Thatcher -> a girl; the arch mad hatter
Margaret Hilda Thatcher -> high-tech armada rattler
Margaret Thatcher -> A charm tart, get her!
Margaret Thatcher -> that great charmer
Martin Scorsese -> screen is a storm
Mel Gibson -> big melons (Anagram Genius)
Mel Gibson -> bong smile
Mona Lisa, the -> a smile, no hat
Morse Code, the -> here come dots
Nancy Kerrigan -> grace 'n any rink (Tim DeLaney)
Patrick Stewart -> a crap trek twist
Presbyterian -> best in prayer ("the Masquerade", 1797-1802)
Rocky Mountains -> O, man, ski country (Ruthless, Nov 1985, "The Enigma")
Ronald Reagan -> a darn long era 
Ronald Wilson Reagan -> a long-insane warlord (Anagram Genius)
Ronald Wilson Reagan -> insane Anglo warlord 
Ronald Wilson Reagan -> no, darlings, no ERA law (Mike Morton)
Salman Rushdie -> read, shun Islam
Secret Service of the United States, the -> these stout detectives ferret each sin
Ten Commandments -> can't mend most men
Tom Cruise -> so I'm cuter 
Tony Blair, MP -> I'm Tory plan B
Tonya Harding -> do an angry hit (Tim DeLaney)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea -> Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense.  (E.L. Benfer)
U.S. Grant, R.E. Lee -> true generals (Ulk, 1997, "The Enigma")
United States Bureau of Fisheries, the -> I raise the bass to feed us in the future
United States of America, the -> attaineth its cause, freedom
U.S. Librart of Congress, the -> It's only for research bugs!
Virginia Bottomley -> I'm an evil Tory bigot
Washington crosses the Delaware -> he saw his ragged Continentals row
Western Union -> no wire unsent
William Clinton -> I'm it, an ill clown
William Jefferson Clinton -> firm clean fellow. Joint? Sin! (William Schmidt)
William Jefferson Clinton -> jail Mrs Clinton: felon wife (Ward Hardman)

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." -> He wants back dearest gone from here.
"Actions speak louder than words." -> Talk or airs cannot show up deeds.
"A good name is better than great riches." -> Be not a hoarder; right acts gain esteem.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." -> Stroller on go, amasses nothing.
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe." -> A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.  (Vonnegut, Cory Calhoun)
"Many a true word is spoken in jest." -> Men joke and so win trusty praise.
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil A. Armstrong -> A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars! (Steve Krakowski)
"The best things in life are free." -> Nail-biting refreshes the feet (Donald L. Holmes)
"The check is in the mail." -> Claim "Heck, I sent it (heh)"
"The end of the world is nigh!" -> Down this hole, frightened! (Donald L. Holmes)
"To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." -> In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.  (Hamlet, Cory Calhoun)
"Why shouldn't America go re-elect President Clinton in Ninety-Six?" -> He has a prime or cunning tendency to wildly solicit Internet sex.  (Cory Calhoun)

Diane Modahl -> I had no medal / Oh mad denial (Chris Bradfield)
  [Diane Modahl is a British 800m runner who is accused of drug abuse.
  She protests her innocence.]
Eithne Ni Bhraonain (the singer Enya) -> thin, bonnie hen; aria! (Jim Waters)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -> won half the new world's glory
Margaret Thatcher -> great charm threat
Margaret Thatcher -> Meg, the arch-Tartar
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -> gave us a damned clever satire (Wei-Hwa Huang)
the aristocracy -> a rich tory caste
Thelma R Young -> an ugly mother (Chris Bradfield)
William Ewart Gladstone -> wild agitator - means well (Lewis Carroll)

From a review of the anagram chapter of the Oxford Guide to Word Games
(Tony Augarde):

It contains a very good history of anagrams.  As you might have thought
anagrams date almost from the time that the (an) alphabet was invented
and words were created with sequences of letters but Augarde (the
author) has an example dating from 300 BC where Lycophron, a Greek
writer, anagrammed Ptolemy Philadelphus [Editor: "Phildelphus" in the
original] into "made of honey".  This, of course, was an anagram in
ancient Greek - it doesn't work in English.

He also has an amusing example from France where a Frenchman Andre
Pujon discovered that an anagram of his name was "Pendu a Rion"
(Hanged at Rion).  In those days people believed that discovering an
anagram of your name told you your fortune and he ended up committing a
murder so that he would be hanged in Rion which was then the centre of
criminal justice in Auvergne.

Lewis Carroll was also a keen anagrammer and created the anagram of
William Ewart Gladstone, "Wild agitator - means well".

Voltaire is the pen-name of Arouet who made it by anagramming "Arouet
L.J.", L.J. being short for "le jeune" - "the younger".

Calvin published Institutions under the pen-name Alcuinus which is an
anagram of Calvinus, the Latin form of his name ("v"s and "u"s are
equivalent in Latin).

-- William Tunstall-Pedoe <William@genius.demon.co.uk>

[ Editor: the thread also posed "Nice right-wing monster" (a US
  politician) as an anagram to solve; no answer appears in the collected
  postings.  An obfuscated C anagram-finding program posted to
  alt.anagrams in the same collection is omitted. ]

[ Editor: from the "Anagrams" section of a mid-1990s Web page (a
CapitolHill GeoPage) whose palindromes are in
language/english/sentences/palindromes.  Anagrams already in this entry
(Gladstone, eleven plus two, Western Union, The Morse Code, mother-in-law,
Ronald Wilson Reagan) are left out. ]

The early Christians also liked anagrams and turned "Quid est veritas?"
("What is truth?") into "Est vir qui adest" ("It is this man here").

Other famous or notable anagrams:

circumstantial evidence = can ruin a selected victim
a stitch in time saves nine = this is meant as incentive
William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller (or) I like Mr. W.H.
funeral = real fun
Victoria, England's Queen = governs a nice quiet land
parishioners = I hire parsons
intoxicate = excitation
schoolmaster = the classroom