Ambrose Bierce quotes and sayings
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce quotes
- Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
- Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.