Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCEYou don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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The 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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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Women 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.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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