All Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Abstainers
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Abstain
- Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. Abscond
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Ambition
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. Architect
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Battle
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Bore
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Cabbage
- Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,… Adj Good
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Age
- Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Adj Conspicuously
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Account
- I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. All
- Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Domination
- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Actual
- The covers of this book are too far apart. Apart
- Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. Advocate
- Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ability
- Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. Alien
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Ancient
- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Barometer
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Calamities
- Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. B Confided
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Convent
- Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Beyond