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