To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you. – Ambrose Bierce