Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce Quotations
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.