All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
AMBROSE BIERCESaint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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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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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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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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