Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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