More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Dawn: When men of reason go to bed."
- "Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."
- "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
More In Great
- "A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."― Christopher Hampton
- "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."― Larry Bird
- "My being gay was something of not great interest to me."― Maurice Sendak