Quotes Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give...

The covers of this book are too far apart....

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosp...

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor u...

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bl...

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful ...

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we ...

There are 4 kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifi...

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, just...

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense....

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice....

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon recor...

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make...

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography....

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the...

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not...

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans ha...

What this country needs what every country needs occasionall...

When you doubt, abstain....

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, ther...

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his i...

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and sel...

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to b...

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery....

Edible, adj.:  Good to eat, and wholesome to dige...