Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.

Ambrose Bierce

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Ambrose Bierce

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

Patience – A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Ambrose Bierce

Fear has no brains it is an idiot, The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul

Ambrose Bierce