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| AMBROSE BIERCE |
| �A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen.�
�A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.� �A specialist is one who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.� �All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.� �Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.� �CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.� (The Devil�s Dictionary, 1911) �Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.� �Cynic: n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.� �Diplomacy--the patriotic art of lying for one's country.� �History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.� �Patience--a minor form of despair disguised as virtue.� �Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.� �Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.� �RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.� [The Devil's Dictionary] �Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.� �The covers of this book are too far apart.� �To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge.� |
| (1842-1914) |