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.
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
