October '01 Epigrams of the Day

Holy wars are no better than the other kind.

Business is good in Germany - with the men who make wooden legs.

The Nobel Commissioners have announced that they have decided not to award the Peace Prize to Bill Kaiser.

All war is suicide for the people who began it.

Granting, for argument's sake, that Germany's trade prospects were threatened, has wholesale murder bettered sales?

The newspapers say that Bertha Krupp is a large donor to the Red Cross. Lovely!

Kill Kruppery, and cease to make God a party to murder.

For Sale: A few good Vultures, in pairs, home-grown, fattened on human flesh. For Catalog, address Bill Kaiser & Co., Care of Beelzebub & Co., Tophet.

Bill thinks he is a Superman, but some day the Devil will explain to him that he is only a Supernumerary.

Bill has decorated God with the Double Cross of the second class.

If Bill has his way, the world will look like a Swiss Cheese and smell Limburger.

Kruppery has no defenders - only apologists.

"Women and children first!" Yes, Kruppery and Meingottism give women and children Hell first, last and always.

All war is suicide for the people who began it.

Bill Kaiser believes in scraps - but not scraps of paper.

Our hearts are with the Germany of Industry, Economy, Science, Invention - but not with "Meinself-und-Gottism."

The microbes of death and dissolution follow fast in the footsteps of Bill Kaiser.

If it hadn't been Louvain, Brussels and Antwerp, it would have been Paris. "The next stop is London!"

War declared upon germs!

Bill Kaiser explains at length why he was obliged to violate Belgium - but no explanation ever explains the necessity of an explanation.

Send Bill Kaiser back to the DARK AGES, which he so ably represents.

Bill Kaiser is a great industrial leader - he takes the biscuit in the Buzzard business.

The Kaiser is the Mad Mullah of Europe - and most of his people follow his orders with the zeal of fatalists.

Violence, as a corrective for commercial jealousy, is scarcely good economics.

W. Kaiser & Co. - Dealers in Discord - Combustibles a Specialty - Both Phones - We strive to please (Ourselves)

The microbes of death and dissolution follow fast in the footsteps of Bill Kaiser.

Bill Kaiserism mated with Kruppery breeds bacteria.

Suppose you drop a few bombs on your prejudices.

Train your guns on the grouch!

Cataclysm: A great financial or commercial panic which reduces the rich to penury. (Earthquakes, famines and floods which catch millions of the poor off guard are "natural occurrences.")

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