Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons – including all the assassins – entertain grave misgivings.
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Guillotine, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Don’t steal; thou shalt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Low-bred, adj. “Raised” instead of brought up.
Brain, n.: The apparatus with which we think that we think.
Brain, v. (as in “to brain”): To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
