Famous Quotes
1132 Quotations with Ambrose.
- 961. Ambrose Bierce: Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
- 962. Ambrose Bierce: Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
- 963. Ambrose Bierce: Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for ...
- 964. Ambrose Bierce: Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- 965. Ambrose Bierce: Love: A temporary insanity cureable either by marriage or by removal of the infl ...
- 966. Ambrose Bierce: Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
- 967. Ambrose Bierce: Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- 968. Ambrose Bierce: Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single pe ...
- 969. Ambrose Bierce: Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with l ...
- 970. Ambrose Bierce: Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
- 971. Ambrose Bierce: Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself ...
- 972. Ambrose Bierce: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- 973. Ambrose Bierce: A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
- 974. Ambrose Bierce: A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as ...
- 975. Ambrose Bierce: A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching t ...
- 976. Ambrose Bierce: A man is known by the company he organizes.
- 977. Ambrose Bierce: A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
- 978. Ambrose Bierce: Abscond. To "move" in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- 979. Ambrose Bierce: Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure ...
- 980. Ambrose Bierce: Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.