Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. – Ambrose Bierce
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen