enervating

“Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
– William James

disgustingly drunk

When accused of being 'disgustingly drunk' by a female - possibly socialist - the Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill responded: 'My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.'

integrative

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

duel

"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool."
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

code

“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
- Alan Turing

existential

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

lateral thinking

"Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals."
- T. E. Lawrence

bent elbow

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
- Ernest Hemingway

on betrayal

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

dissembling

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

on blah

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
- Gautama Buddha