Quote

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Ambrose Bierce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Disobedience
Cloud
Sarcastic
Silver
Clouds
Lining
Servitude

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Image
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
General, said the commander of the delinquent brigade, I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Achievement the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
Ambrose Bierce