If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw AA

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
-- Russell Baker AA

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce AA

War is not nice.
-- Barbara Bush AA