Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
AMBROSE BIERCEPhilosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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