All Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Application
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Advantage
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. Afterward
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. Advantage
- Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Distinguishing
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Bones
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Food
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Abscond
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately… Alliance
- I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's… Acquaintance
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man… Beating
- Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood… Age
- Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud… Allowed
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)… Ballot
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition… Administration
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any… Any
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence… Bloody
- Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation… Considered
- That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity Adversity
- OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. Door
- The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men. All
- Congratulations is the civility of envy. Civility
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. Conducive
- Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. Disappointment
- Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. Admiral