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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Ambrose Bierce |
| Quote #1: | "Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." |
| Quote #2: | "Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." |
| Quote #3: | "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." |
| Quote #4: | "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum" |
| Quote #5: | "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves." |
| Quote #6: | "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." |
| Quote #7: | "Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having." |
| Quote #8: | "Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." |
| Quote #9: | "Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others." |
| Quote #10: | "Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." |
| Quote #11: | "Brain an apparatus with which we think we think." |
| Quote #12: | "Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen." |
| Quote #13: | "Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." |
| Quote #14: | "To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." |
| Quote #15: | "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know." |
| Quote #16: | "Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." |
| Quote #17: | "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." |
| Quote #18: | "The covers of this book are too far apart." |
| Quote #19: | "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." |
| Quote #20: | "Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." |
| Quote #21: | "Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." |
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