Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose BierceNothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
Ambrose BierceYou can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
Ambrose Bierce