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.
AMBROSE BIERCEDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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