#ma

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#community #condition #consisting #making #master

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#diplomatic #diplomatic relations #divorce #relations #resumption

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#art #human #limitations #logic #misunderstanding

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. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#eat #edible #good #man #pig

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#characters #designed #formal #inquiry #judges

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#him #man #speak #you

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#expensive #golf #i #marbles #playing