"War: that mad game the world so..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.”

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.”

“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”

“Reprisals are but a sad resource.”

“Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.”

“A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.”

“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”

“The little man is still a man.”