Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCEDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCEVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
AMBROSE BIERCEPolitics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
AMBROSE BIERCEThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCELabor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
AMBROSE BIERCEPatriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
AMBROSE BIERCETrue, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCESelfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
AMBROSE BIERCEAmbition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCEULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
AMBROSE BIERCEDistance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe 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.
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