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.
AMBROSE BIERCESpeak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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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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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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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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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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