April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
AMBROSE BIERCEWine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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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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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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