Quotes

“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.” Ambrose Bierce

“Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.” Ambrose Bierce

“Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.” Ambrose Bierce

“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” Ambrose Bierce

“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.” Ambrose Bierce

“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.” Ambrose Bierce

“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” Ambrose Bierce

“Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.” Ambrose Bierce

“Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.” Ambrose Bierce

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.” Ambrose Bierce

“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.” Ambrose Bierce

“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

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.” Ambrose Bierce

“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.” Ambrose Bierce

“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” Ambrose Bierce

“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.” Ambrose Bierce

“Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.” Ambrose Bierce

“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” Ambrose Bierce

“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.” Ambrose Bierce

“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.” Ambrose Bierce

“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” Ambrose Bierce

“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.” Ambrose Bierce

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” George Washington Carver

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” George Washington Carver

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” George Washington Carver

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.” George Washington Carver

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” George Washington Carver