Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCEARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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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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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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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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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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