“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”
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“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”
“Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband”
“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable”
“The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows”
“Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another”
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math”
“Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
“Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting”
“Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country”
“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day”
“Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law”
“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.”
“Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. ”
“Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.”
“Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul”
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”
“Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent”
“Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder”