Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.