Ambrose Bierce Quotes

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

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Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

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