Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

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.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Doubt is the father of invention.