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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914

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

Education Learning Ignorance Kind

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.

People Believe Care London I Believe

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Patience Revenge Planning Worth

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Laziness Person Degree Low Repose

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women Retirement Wish Place Sin Who

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Humor American Salt Intellectual Wit

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Future Foundation Apologize Offense

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ability Degree High Found Solemnity

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Book Far Apart Covers Too

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Happiness Misery Sensation Agreeable

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Politics Wishes Others Conservative

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

Good Others Two Good Fortune Fortune

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