Ambrose Bierce Quotes

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."