Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
- Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
- Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
- Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
- Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.