Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment

#Disappointment

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

#Happiness

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

#Happiness

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth...

#Age, #Funny

CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was...

#Age, #Funny

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

#Success

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

#Success

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the...

#Art

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous...

#History

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by...

#History

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable

#Religion

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

#Age