RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
AMBROSE BIERCEWhat 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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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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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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