LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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