“Battle: A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”
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- Alexander the Great Quotes
“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”
“Habit: A shackle for the free.”
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Politics: Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
“Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
“Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
“Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
“Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
“Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
“Experience: The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
“Debt: An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
“Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.”
“Selfish: Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
“Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law.”
“Zealot: One who is inspired by a passion for the advancement of a cause that he does not understand.”
“Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.”
“Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offense.”
“Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
“Radicalism: The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.”
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“Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
“Brain: An apparatus with which we think that we think.”
“Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes :
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
“Deliberation: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”
“Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
“Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
“Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.”
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Revolution: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
“Sweater: Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
“Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
“Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
“Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
“Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
“Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience, and reflection.”
“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“Impiety: Your irreverence toward my deity.”
“History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
“Positive: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”
“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.”
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
“Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am).”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
“Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.”