You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Doubt is the father of invention.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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