Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the >>

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remai >>

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the busin >>

Quotations about History and Historians

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist. >>

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natura >>

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from his >>

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

Bierce, Ambrose