PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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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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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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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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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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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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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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