Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCELIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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