1,237 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.