They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCEThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCEReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCELaughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCETo the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCEScriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
AMBROSE BIERCEWine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
AMBROSE BIERCEMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
AMBROSE BIERCEEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEAge, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
AMBROSE BIERCEThere is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEAborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe covers of this book are too far apart.
AMBROSE BIERCEQuotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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