In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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REALISM, 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.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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