"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Religion More From Ambrose Bierce "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." "Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." "Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions." More In Religion "Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."― Lawrence Welk "When Hegel later became a man of influence’ he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."― Walter Kaufmann "It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."― H. P. Blavatsky