Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.

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

Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.