An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
Will Rogers
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Laurence J. Peter
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
Eric Sevareid
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
Stay Safe !
Most of Clauswitz is a restatement of the obvious in an unclear writing style.
Brought up to date.
It is only aggression that calls forth defense, and war along with it. The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Islam always claimed to be); it would prefer to take over our country unopposed. To prevent it’s doing so one must be willing to make war and be prepared for it. In other words it is the weak, those likely to need defense, who should always be armed in order not to be overwhelmed. Thus decrees the art of war. - Karl von Clauswitz, On War, 1832.