Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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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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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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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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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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