Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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