Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCELottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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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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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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