Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride at these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth is that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.” He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
Understanding, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and by Kant, who lived in a horse.
Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842 – ?1914), journalist, humourist and world-famous Gringo; author of The Devil’s Dictionary, which, according to me and Groucho Marx, is one of the greatest reads ever and contains more knowledge than three years of post-degree study.
3 comments:
rubbish. are you nuts and frustrated? take a cold bath.
You're an ass. Thanks for dropping by!
Really. I must ask. Why the hell does someone find an old post via Google, all the way from India, and then care so much as to protest so?
Further, what the hell was in here that was so worth your time to comment? Since this was the only post you read, I am at a loss... I must conclude that it is actually *you* who are frustrated and nuts.
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