Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. -Ambrose Bierce Technology
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. -Ambrose Bierce Jealousy
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. -Ambrose Bierce Technology
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 Age
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. -Ambrose Bierce Wisdom
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. -Ambrose Bierce Failure
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -Ambrose Bierce Men
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -Ambrose Bierce Politics
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -Ambrose Bierce History
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. -Ambrose Bierce Power
