Quotes Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of whe...

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the wo...

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual chan...

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of tha...

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property....

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out o...

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low de...

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studio...

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions....

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay....

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of...

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come ou...

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordanc...

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage....

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual indepe...

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consistin...

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in plac...

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is wo...

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness...

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world...

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautif...

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, includi...

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the w...

Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue....

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue....