Consul – 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 BIERCELAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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He 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.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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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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Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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