Famous Quotes
1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 1061. Ambrose Bierce: Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless char ...
- 1062. Ambrose Bierce: Truth -- an ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
- 1063. Ambrose Bierce: What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the countr ...
- 1064. Ambrose Bierce: When in Rome, do as Rome does.
- 1065. Ambrose Bierce: Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery b ...
- 1066. Ambrose Bierce: Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the ...
- 1067. Ambrose Bierce: Woman absent is woman dead.
- 1068. Ambrose Bierce: Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their ...
- 1069. Ambrose Bierce: The future is the period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are t ...
- 1070. Ambrose Bierce: A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his e ...
- 1071. Ambrose Bierce: Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly disc ...
- 1072. Ambrose Bierce: Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleas ...
- 1073. Ambrose Bierce: Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opin ...
- 1074. Ambrose Bierce: Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academ ...
- 1075. Ambrose Bierce: Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well eno ...
- 1076. Ambrose Bierce: All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- 1077. Ambrose Bierce: Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
- 1078. Ambrose Bierce: An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.
- 1079. Ambrose Bierce: Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently sli ...
- 1080. Ambrose Bierce: Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for gettin ...