Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance >>

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. >>

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. >>

Quotations about Funerals

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor o >>

The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure t >>

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the count >>

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

Bierce, Ambrose