All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
--John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
--John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
Related:
- The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is
not true.
They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers... - Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
Since all alone,
so Heaven has willed, we die? Nor even the tenderest... - Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a
conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore - last... - All things that are born must die.
Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. --... - On the shore lies Neptune's own crystal
trident... - On wings of winds came flying all abroad."
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires,... - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -- William... - Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind... - Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind...
