Top 156 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.