Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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“Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Education Quotes
“Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
Miscellaneous Quotes