Ambrose Bierce quotes and sayings
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce quotes
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
- Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
- Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.