Quotes

America
The only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.
- Georges Clemenceau

Poets
People who are usually dead by their late twenties.
- Robert Graves

Tax Avoidance
The only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes

Sunday School
A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H. L. Mencken

Riot
A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
- A. Bierce

Man
The only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler