THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY 

Ambrose Bierce

 

E and F

 

Education - That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding

 

Egotist - A person of low taste, more interested in  himself than in me.

 

Envy - Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity

 

Experience - The wisdom that enable us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced

 

Famous - Conspicuously miserable 

 

Fashion - A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey

 

Friendship - A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul

 

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