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 BIERCEPray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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