Ambrose Bierce
  • Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

  • Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

  • Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  • Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  • What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.