Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCEEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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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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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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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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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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