1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.