“Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
Good“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Business“Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
Good“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Love“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”
Art“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
Politics“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
Experience“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Power“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Positive“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
History“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
Patience“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
Technology“Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”
God“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”
Religion“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
Patriotism“Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.”
Great“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
Fear“To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Positive“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Mom“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”
Legal“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.”
Failure“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
Attitude