Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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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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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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