Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.