The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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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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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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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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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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