Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCEIn each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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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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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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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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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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