Ambrose Bierce Made Quotations

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.