Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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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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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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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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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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