Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCEDivorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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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.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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