“Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
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“We are shut up in schools and college education recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion
“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
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“History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have never forgiven them.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Cyril Connolly
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion
“If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
“The worst written book I have read in quite a long time.”
W. Brogan, The Guardian
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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