Famous Quotes
1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opin ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we a ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence i ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to other ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business kno ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them ...
- 15. Bierce: Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth o ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from moles ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperat ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial ri ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner am ...