Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCEARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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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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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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