1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Here’s to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter’s advantage for the other to have said.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven’s best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg “pate”.

Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

FOLLY, n. That “gift and faculty divine” whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man’s mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.