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.
AMBROSE BIERCEPhilosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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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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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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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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