Weekend Words

“I’ll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.”

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

“The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.”

“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”

“War is too important to be left to the generals.”

“When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.”

“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.”

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”

“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”

“Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?”