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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity...

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ART, n. This...

ART, n. This...

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag --...

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CREDITOR, n. One...

CREDITOR, n. One...

CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating...

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A new star...

A new star...

A new star with a tremendous national appeal, the skill of a consummate showman.

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For Africa to...

For Africa to...

For Africa to me. . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going...

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Science may have...

Science may have...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of...

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Sanity is a...

Sanity is a...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Source:
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author,...

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DOG, n. A...

DOG, n. A...

DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master...

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DUTY, n. That...

DUTY, n. That...

DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of...

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HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The...

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable,...

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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed...

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed...

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous...

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Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask...

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Will Rogers: Even when you...

Will Rogers: Even when you...

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a...

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Will Rogers: I never expected...

Will Rogers: I never expected...

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

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Will Rogers: If I studied...

Will Rogers: If I studied...

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of...

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Will Rogers: One ad is...

Will Rogers: One ad is...

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Will Rogers: The best thing...

Will Rogers: The best thing...

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

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Robert Frost: Freud was way...

Robert Frost: Freud was way...

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each...

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Robert Frost: I have never...

Robert Frost: I have never...

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Source: Lord Darlington, in Lady...

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