Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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