LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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