Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

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

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that the >>

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. >>

Quotations about Public Office

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It i >>

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be fillin >>

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have >>

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Bierce, Ambrose