There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEForgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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