Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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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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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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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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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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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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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