Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic. It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't."
Asked | Attainments | Authentic | Awarded |
Bismark | Disk | Drowning | Gallantly |
Given | Lives | Meaning | Medal |
Metal | Person | Related | Replied |
Rescuing | Reward | Save | Services |
Small | Sometimes | Virtues |