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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
«MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.»
«PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.»
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.»
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.»
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.»
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.»
«OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief.»
«PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.»
«POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas . . .»
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