Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
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) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
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 Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Doubt is the father of invention.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
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