There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEApril fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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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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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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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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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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