Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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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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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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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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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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