Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
AMBROSE BIERCEBrain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
-
-
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
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.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
AMBROSE BIERCE