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Top 500 Ambrose Bierce Quotes (2024 Update)

Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “A lottery is a tax on stupidity.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil’s objections. A needless precaution – they knew no more of the matter than he.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “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.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Doubt is the father of invention.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Congratulations is the civility of envy.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum – “I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;” as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “When you doubt, abstain.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “TRUCE, n. Friendship.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
Ambrose Bierce Quote: “Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.”
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