In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCEDawn: When men of reason go to bed.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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