An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
Ambrose BierceLOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
Ambrose Bierce