Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
AMBROSE BIERCEDistance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
AMBROSE BIERCEFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
AMBROSE BIERCEAccordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
AMBROSE BIERCEYear: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
AMBROSE BIERCEDebt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCEReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCEScriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe 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.
AMBROSE BIERCEConsul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCEFear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCEAge, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
AMBROSE BIERCEDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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