Bierce, Ambrose

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

ability


Bierce, Ambrose

Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

age


Bierce, Ambrose

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

beauty


Bierce, Ambrose

Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

bore


Bierce, Ambrose

Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

business


Bierce, Ambrose

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

conservative-liberal


Bierce, Ambrose

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

destiny


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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 Eternally to die for.

immortality


Bierce, Ambrose

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

law


Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.

marriage


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