There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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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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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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