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Which Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is…
- Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man…
- Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud…
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence…
- Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
- Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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