#p

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#brain #think #which

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#dracula #love #experience

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that! ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#girlfriends #got #had #i #mean

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

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conspicuously #miserable

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#matrimony #particularly #similarity #taste #tastes