“As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“conduct unbecoming a soldier.”
Paul Boyce
“This [language and criticism] is unbecoming of the president of Syria.”
Walid Jumblatt
“I don't think we can classify it legally as an international border now because Gaza is not free of occupation.”
Saeb Erekat
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I think it's critically important for all kinds of reasons that this not be an American occupation,”
Carl Levin
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
