Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.