Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Example Quotes

Example is better than following it.

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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

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

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Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

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To the eye of failure success is an accident.

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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

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UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

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Advice, the smallest current coin.

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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

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