“Experience: The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.”
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.”
“Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.”
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
“Battle: A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”
“Brain: An apparatus with which we think that we think.”
“Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.”
“Sweater: Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”
“Habit: A shackle for the free.”
“Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
“Debt: An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
“Deliberation: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on.”
“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.”
“Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
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“Impiety: Your irreverence toward my deity.”
“Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
“Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law.”
“Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
“Revolution: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes :
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Radicalism: The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.”
“Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”
“Politics: Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
“Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
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“Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am).”
“Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“Selfish: Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
“Zealot: One who is inspired by a passion for the advancement of a cause that he does not understand.”
“Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
“Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
“Positive: Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.”
“Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offense.”
“Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
“Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
“Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.”
“Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.”
“History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
“Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
“Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.”
“Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
“Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”
“Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience, and reflection.”