True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
AMBROSE BIERCEOptimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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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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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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