Quote

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

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
Prejudice
Reason

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Image
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Least said is soon disavowed.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
Ambrose Bierce