Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCEDebt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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