ON DISCONTENT
What is creation?
A: A failure
What is life?
A: A bore
What is man?
A: A fraud
What is woman?
A: A fraud and a bore
What is beauty?
A: A deception
What is love?
A: A disease
What is marriage?
A: A mistake
What is a wife?
A: A trial
What is a child?
A: A nuisance
What is the devil?
A: A fable
What is good?
A: Hypocrisy
What is evil?
A: Detection
What is wisdom?
A: Selfishness
What is happiness?
A: A delusion
What is friendship?
A: Humbug
What is generosity?
A: Imbecility
What is money?
A: Everything
And what is everything?
A: Nothing
Were we, perhaps, not happier when we were monkeys?
- attributed to London Truth
by Edward Ward in The Scrap Book, 1899
2 comments:
christ almighty that's depressing.
Edward Ward must have been a bundle of fun at a party back in 1899. Imagine the host offering him a drink:
"Eddie, would you like a Scotch?"
"Oh, no ... what is Scotch? It's a bronze colored distilled poison that will disease my liver."
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