Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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