Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Doubt is the father of invention.
