Ambrose Bierce Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”

“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”

“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”

“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.”

“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.”

“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.”

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.”

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”

“Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”