Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
