Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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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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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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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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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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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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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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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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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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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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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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