Famous Quotes
1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 1001. Ambrose Bierce: Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
- 1002. Ambrose Bierce: Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon t ...
- 1003. Ambrose Bierce: Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individ ...
- 1004. Ambrose Bierce: Creditor: One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dr ...
- 1005. Ambrose Bierce: Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is but ...
- 1006. Ambrose Bierce: Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- 1007. Ambrose Bierce: Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
- 1008. Ambrose Bierce: Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and ...
- 1009. Ambrose Bierce: Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
- 1010. Ambrose Bierce: Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of ...
- 1011. Ambrose Bierce: Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a sn ...
- 1012. Ambrose Bierce: Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish the ...
- 1013. Ambrose Bierce: Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connec ...
- 1014. Ambrose Bierce: Erudition: dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
- 1015. Ambrose Bierce: Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or ...
- 1016. Ambrose Bierce: Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquai ...
- 1017. Ambrose Bierce: Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowled ...
- 1018. Ambrose Bierce: Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- 1019. Ambrose Bierce: Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their des ...
- 1020. Ambrose Bierce: Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true a ...