Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCE
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce 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.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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