CHILDHOOD, N. The Period Of Human Life Intermediate Between The Idiocy Of Infancy And The Folly Of Youth -- Two Removes From The Sin Of Manhood And Three From The Remorse Of Age.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest....
Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...
Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...