1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

If life were not worth having,' said the preacher, / 'T would have in suicide one pleasant feature.' / 'An error,' said the pessimist, 'you're making: / What's not worth having cannot be worth taking.

Marriage: A master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.

The fallen soldier (the word “hero” appears to be a later invention) has such humble honors as it is possible to give. His part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the Summer hills Is that his grave is green. True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of whom no memory remains to honor, but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.