Quotaria - Ambrose Bierce

Ocean: A body of water occupying
about two-thirds of a world made
for man - who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce

Future: That period of time in which
our affairs prosper, our friends are
true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce

Alliance: In international politics, the
union of two thieves who have their hands
so deeply inserted in each other's pocket
that they cannot separately plunder a third.
- Ambrose Bierce

Orthography: The science of spelling
by the eye instead of the ear.
- Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can
analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.
- Ambrose Bierce