Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.