Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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