Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCELove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCECorporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
AMBROSE BIERCEMad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCEULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
AMBROSE BIERCEBore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
AMBROSE BIERCEOpposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
AMBROSE BIERCERUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
AMBROSE BIERCEMarriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
AMBROSE BIERCEIn each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCEAborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
AMBROSE BIERCEDebt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEResponsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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