The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. – William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods a