Quotes by Ambrose Bierce: The complete collection of over 150 quotes

by Lilith Regan

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

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