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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
«ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.»
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
«EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. --Joel Frad Bink»
«Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.»
«LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.»
«KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.»
«CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.»
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
«IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.»