Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
AMBROSE BIERCEVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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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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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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