3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
