Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.close quote - Ambrose Bierce

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.close quote - Ambrose Bierce

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.close quote - Ambrose Bierce

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.close quote - Ambrose Bierce
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.close quote - Ambrose Bierce

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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.close quote - Ambrose Bierce


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