Ambrose Bierce Quotes

  • Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Advice, The smallest current coin.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Patience, A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Marriage, the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.Upload to Facebook
    Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • The covers of this book are too far apart.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Day,A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
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