Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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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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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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