In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCEYear: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
-
-
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCE