Ambrose Bierce Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Ambrose Bierce quotes and sayings page 5 (deceased journalist born on Jun 24, 1842). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 125 we have for him.
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
“Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.”
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
“Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.”
“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”
“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”
“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
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