Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Alliance – 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.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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