Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Age Quotes

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

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

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

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

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

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad,...

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad,...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not...

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or...

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or...

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is...

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is...

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so...

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so...

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things...

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things...

A man is known by the company he organizes.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter...

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the...

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying...

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying...

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.