Quotes from bierce ambrose ii

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

Men are polygamous by nature and monogamous for opportunity. It is a faithful man who is willing to be watched by a half-dozen wives.

It is not for nothing that tigers choose to hide in the jungle, for commerce and trade are carried on, mostly, in the open.

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

When the young die and the old live, nature's machinery is working with the friction that we name grief.