Litigation: A machine which you go into... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

Writer journalist Machine satirist Civil War

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Weather

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

- Ambrose Bierce

Experience

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

- Ambrose Bierce

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

- Ambrose Bierce

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

- Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

- Ambrose Bierce

Happiness

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

- Ambrose Bierce

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