Quotes by : Ambrose Bierce

Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace....

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Education n: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.....

Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably....

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who....