Ambrose Bierce
sitemanagerThe small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
Ambrose Bierce
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom ? and of whom only ? it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did…
Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
Wedding: a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times…
Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart.