Quotes - Ambrose Bierce

Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the
human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
- Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting
of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not
conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by
the conformants [sic] from study of themselves; at odds with the
majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are
pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they
themselves are sane.
- Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious
arrangement of wheels, levers and springs,
and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce