“Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting”

“Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ”

“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”

“Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

“War: A by-product of the arts of peace.”

“It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.”