1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.