Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power or the consideration to be dead.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power or the consideration to be dead.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Clairvoyant n.: A person commonly a woman who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely that he is a blockhead.
Clairvoyant n.: A person commonly a woman who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely that he is a blockhead.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Positive adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Positive adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Consul – in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Consul – in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Alliance – in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Alliance – in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.
Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.