Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

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.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

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.