Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote
Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. Ambrose Bierce Read Quote