Quotes

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

In Geopolitics the phrase exists: “Doing so would be an international crime; but even worse than illegal, is ineffective.”

-Christopher Hudgens

Style is the stuff you get wrong.

-Neil Gaiman

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

Science hasn’t yet figured out how to solve obesity.

-USA Today 08/2022

A Hideous Hermaphroditical Character which has neither the Force and Firmness of a Man, Not the Gentleness and Sensibility of a Woman

-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it

General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!

-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson

To be turned out by the Pimp of the White House

-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce

Bastard Brat of a Scotch Peddler

-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton

Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealer

-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln

Ersatz

Ersatz

is a product or creation made or used as a stand in substitute, typically inferior, for something else. Tiki Drinks, Non-dairy Creamer, Bouillon Cubes, & War Sausage.

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Ian Fleming