He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
AMBROSE BIERCECoward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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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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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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