Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
AMBROSE BIERCEPatience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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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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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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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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