Age Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

— Ambrose Bierce

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

— Ambrose Bierce

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

— Ambrose Bierce

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

— Ambrose Bierce

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

— Ambrose Bierce

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

— Ambrose Bierce

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

— Ambrose Bierce

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer…

— Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing…

— Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I…

— Ambrose Bierce

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no…

— Ambrose Bierce

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow…

— Ambrose Bierce

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies…

— Ambrose Bierce

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his…

— Ambrose Bierce

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor…

— Ambrose Bierce

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find…

— Ambrose Bierce

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a…

— Ambrose Bierce

CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the…

— Ambrose Bierce

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies…

— Ambrose Bierce

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary,…

— Ambrose Bierce

HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments --a very…

— Ambrose Bierce

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me…

— Ambrose Bierce