Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1842 Death: 1914
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a ….
Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before..
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine ha….
prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden..
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standa….
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin..
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself..
LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman..
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object o….
INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis tha….
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs..
In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also s….
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money..
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect..
In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart..
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility..
Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw..
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth..
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. A….
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitatio….
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow..