Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
AMBROSE BIERCEThere are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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