Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.