Some Nice Definitions

Assasination:

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

--George Bernard Shaw

Bank:

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

--Robert Frost

City:

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

--Herber Prochnow

Community:

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

--Henrik Ibsen

Computer :

A million morons working at the speed of light.

--David Ferrier

Conscience:

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

--H. L. Mencken

Conversation:

Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

--Andre Maurois

Conservaion should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitesness, novel without falsehood.

--William Shakespeare

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

--Joseph Addison

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

--Baltasar Gracian

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

--Sa'Di

Democracy:

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

--Laurance Peter

Diplomat:

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

--Robert Frost

Drama:

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

--Alfred Hitchcock

Economist:

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

--Laurence J. Peter

Expert:

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

--Niels Bohr

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

--Nicholas Murray Butler

Friend:

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

--Aristotle

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

--Samuel Butler

Gambling:

The sure way of getting nothing for something.

--Wilson Mizner

Government:

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite on one end and no sense of responsibility on the other.

--Ronald Regan

History:

Is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

--Napoleon

Jury:

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

--Robert Frost

Knowledge:

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

--Confucius

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

--Will Durant

Love:

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

--H. L. Mencken

Obstacles:

Are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

--Hannah More

Originality:

Is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

--Laurance Peter

Politician:

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

--H.L.Mencken

Prayer:

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

--Victor hugo

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

--Mark Twain

The prayers of an old man are the only contributions left in his power.

--Thomas Jefferson

The enthusiasm of prayer is likewise a mystery between man and God; like modesty it casts a veil over thought and and hides from men what is meant for heaven.

--Alphonse De Lamartine

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

--Austin O'Malley

For whatever high reasons, men of prayer must knock and knock -- sometimes with bleeding knuckles in the dark.

--George A. Buttrick

It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk.

--Hariot Ward Beecher

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

--Francis Cardinal Spellman

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. ... By considering yourself as an advocate with God for your neighbors and acquaintances, you would never find it hard to be at peace with them yourself.

--William Law

The fewer words the better prayer.

--Martin Luther

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Religion:

Religion... is the opium of the masses.

--Karl Marx

Teacher:

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

--Thomas Carruthers

Television:

A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

--Ernie Kovacs

Vengence:

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

--Juvenal

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

--Jane Porter

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

--Eric Hoffer

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

--William Shakespeare

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

--Emile Garboriau

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

--Joseph Joubert