I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Civilization Quotes, Love Quotes

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to...

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons -...

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons -...

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment

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

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

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from...

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from...

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The...

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The...

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making...

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making...

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough...

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough...

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure,...

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure,...

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.