Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
AMBROSE BIERCEThe partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
-
-
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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 -
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
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.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AMBROSE BIERCE -
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCE







