Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCEWar is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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