“Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”
“Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
“Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”
“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”
“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”