1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

The god of the world's leading religion.

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.