Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations By Ambrose Bierce:
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: War.
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Human Nature, Sea.
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: War.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary - Category: Philosophy.
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 - Category: Hypocrisy, Manners.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 - Category: Politics.
Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Decisions.
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Astrology.
Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Revolution.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Anger.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Clothes.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Devil, Telephone.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Gambling.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Honesty.
Trinity, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their claims to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Adoration, Religion.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Category: Conformity.
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