History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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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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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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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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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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