Quotes Ambrose Bierce

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as th...

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed....

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent....

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the ...

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of t...

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determ...

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse ...

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectificat...

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to c...

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible....

Doubt is the father of invention....

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming deni...

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of prof...

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a...

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a wor...

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises f...

Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises fr...

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a...

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me....

Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself t...

Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself t...

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white ...

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of...

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull....

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of ...