Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
From Ambrose Bierce
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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