Ambrose Bierce Quotes

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:government intelligence

“FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:future hope

“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:war peace

“LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:learning ignorance

“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:virtue patience despair

“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:youth experience

“There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:music

“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:honesty

“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:philosophy way

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