Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCEScriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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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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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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