All Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Addicted
- Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Arrested
- Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. Boundaries
- Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. From
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Atheism
- Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Absurdity
- Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Achieve
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Art
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Abrogates
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. Chain
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Anarchy
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Country
- Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Disappointment
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Discloses
- Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Annulled
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. Body
- Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Already Sufficiently
- Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. Bestowed
- When you doubt, abstain. Abstain
- Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Blackguard
- Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Go
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would… Believe
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of… Active
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Absence
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Additional