Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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

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

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.

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

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

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.