17+ Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

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

"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

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

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."