More From 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."
- "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
- "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
More In Men
- "True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man’s words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."― Lester B. Pearson
- "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."― Avicenna
- "It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld