Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

— Ambrose Bierce

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

— Ambrose Bierce

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

— Ambrose Bierce

EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meager crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after a while if we are spared, but in the meantime, the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his gluteus maximus.

— Ambrose Bierce

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

— Ambrose Bierce

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

— Ambrose Bierce

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

— Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

— Ambrose Bierce

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

— Ambrose Bierce