Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce on bore
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce on business
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Ambrose Bierce on conservative-liberal
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Ambrose Bierce on destiny
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. Ambrose Bierce on immortality
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce on law
Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two. Ambrose Bierce on marriage
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. Sophocles on adversity
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made Sophocles on adversity
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. Sophocles on boldness
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles on decision
There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles on justice
Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles on labor
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. Robert South on want
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. Southern California Oracle on change
Ambition is an idol, on whose wi Robert Southey on ambition
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. Robert Southey on children
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. Robert Southey on judgment
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Robert Southey on words