Quotes Ambrose Bierce

Scriptures:  the sacred books of our holy religio...

Impiety, n.:  Your irreverence toward my deity.&#...

Religion:  A daughter of Hope and Fear, explainin...

Custard:  A detestable substance produced by a ma...

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best sp...

Poker, n.  A game said to be played with cards fo...

Dentist:  a prestidigitator who, putting metal in...

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

W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, ...

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet d...

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make ...

Mammalia, n.pl.  A family of vertebrate animals w...

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its moth...

Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a...

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

Coward:  One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks...

"Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for ma...

"A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the com...

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

"PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of America...

"Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to becom...

"I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should mod...

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

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of gover...

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