Quotes by : Ambrose Bierce

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities....

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

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

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

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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