Top 40+ quotes of AMBROSE BIERCE famous quotes and sayings

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Amnesty: The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Connoisseur: A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else

Contempt: The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.