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humbug
«Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age»
Author: Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(Chemist, Engineer, Inventor)
| About:
Agriculture
| Keywords:
humbug, humbugged, humbugs
«REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Acre, acres, artificial, carnal, center of the universe, condemns, corresponding, disappear, exchange, figures, fortunes, handled, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, ideally, ingot, measures, merchants, operations, ruling, ruling class, Society of, thereby, The Center, The Ruling Class
«Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
damnable, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, pills, prescribes
«Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.»
«In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Cynicism,
Living,
Skepticism
| Keywords:
cynicism, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, musically, skepticism
«I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Democracy,
Freedom,
Ideas
| Keywords:
democratic state, dwelling, enormous, helpful, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, peoples, The Social, unquestionably