Tags: Ambrose Bierce
Learning n The kind of
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
– Ambrose Bierce
Education n That which discloses
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
– Ambrose Bierce
Fork An instrument used chiefly
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
– Ambrose Bierce
Convent – a place of
Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
– Ambrose Bierce
When among the graves of
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
– AMBROSE BIERCE
Religion n A daughter of
“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
– Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
– Ambrose Bierce
Absence Blots People Out.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
– Ambrose Bierce
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
– Ambrose Bierce
“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
– Ambrose Bierce
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
– Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
– Ambrose Bierce
Education: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
– Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
– Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
– Ambrose Bierce
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
Overwork: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
– Ambrose Bierce
House, A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
– Ambrose Bierce
Mammon, n.: The god of the world’s leading religion.
– Ambrose Bierce
Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
– Ambrose Bierce