Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCEOpposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
AMBROSE BIERCEReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCEPerseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
AMBROSE BIERCEOcean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
AMBROSE BIERCEConversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
AMBROSE BIERCEDebt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCEWine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
AMBROSE BIERCEThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCEAborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe covers of this book are too far apart.
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