Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
AMBROSE BIERCETrue, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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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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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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