The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCERUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Responsibility, 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.
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