1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Longevity uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Painting, the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

Divorce, a bugle blast that separates the combatants and makes them fight at long range.

With brains and honesty, some five and twenty long years as champion of all that's good.