The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCEEducation, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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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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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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