PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
AMBROSE BIERCEREALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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