LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
AMBROSE BIERCEEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.
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War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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