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.
AMBROSE BIERCEMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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