Quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
| Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. |
| Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things. |
| History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. |
| Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy. |
| All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. |
| Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. |
| Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. |
| Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
| Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. |
| The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. |
| This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past. |
| Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me. |
| There are four kinds of Homicide felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. |
| Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. |
| We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. |
