Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
AMBROSE BIERCEMYTHOLOGY, 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.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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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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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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