Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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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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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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