Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEResponsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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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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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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