Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Ingenious Quotations

TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.