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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
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 (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Painting, n. : The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)