Quotes Ambrose Bierce

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an u...

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who sp...

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable....

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be be...

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compe...

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting ...

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune...

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, ou...

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did...

GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor w...

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclu...

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lyi...

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip....

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimp...

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. ...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said w...

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees ...

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advan...

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity....

In our civilization, and under our republican form of govern...

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, partic...

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the ...

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's fai...