Ambrose Bierce Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”