Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
AMBROSE BIERCEFidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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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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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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