Quotes by : Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable....

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

Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that....

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.