Quotes Ambrose Bierce

A man is known by the company he organizes....

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist i...

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but ab...

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree...

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the pro...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends....

Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denyi...

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of den...

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent...

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy...

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow fr...

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while...

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblan...

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state....

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is ca...

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thiev...

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-ha...

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies ...

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom ...

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in him...

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary alre...

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a ...

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowle...

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as ...

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't fi...