In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, ‘patriotism’ is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. (Ambrose Bierce)
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. (Mark Twain)
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. (Leonardo Da Vinci)