Ambrose Bierce Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.”

“Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.”

“Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.”

“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”

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

“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”

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

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”

“It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.”

“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”