#wi

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #any #course #expansion #frontier

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#guess #harm #least #patient #physician

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#discern #draw #genius #having #just

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#believe #civilized #doubt #men #proportion

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#distinguishes #knowledge #love #quality #without

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#cabbage #familiar #head #large #man

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement