Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. – Ambrose Bierce
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce