Ambrose Bierce

Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to…

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure…

Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success…

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern…

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence…

Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience…

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment…

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious…

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion…

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable…

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war…

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal…

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of…

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever…

Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly…