Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
