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.
AMBROSE BIERCEWomen 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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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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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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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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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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