Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Famous Quotes
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
"There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
"Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another."
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotations
"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things."
Po Bronson
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
Robert Francis Kennedy
"The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses"
Juvenal
The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
J D Salinger
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
Bert Leston Taylor
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Dr Robert Schuller
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
Thomas Carlyle
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Honore de Balzac