Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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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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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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