You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
AMBROSE BIERCELogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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