Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEApril fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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He 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.
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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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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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