Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. Doubt is the father of invention. 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. Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Edible - 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.
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