Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose BierceThe fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
Ambrose BierceNOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
Ambrose Bierce