There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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
-
-
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE