The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCEConsul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCEPray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
AMBROSE BIERCELaughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
AMBROSE BIERCEDemocracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
AMBROSE BIERCELitigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCERUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
AMBROSE BIERCEThere is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCEARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
AMBROSE BIERCEOcean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCEAbsurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
AMBROSE BIERCEDivorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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