RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
AMBROSE BIERCEFuture. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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