Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
AMBROSE BIERCEA wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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