They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCEAlliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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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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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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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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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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