Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 2
+1Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Sweater, garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Age–that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
- Ambrose Bierce
0Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
0Advice is the smallest current coin.
- Ambrose Bierce
