Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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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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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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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.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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