Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. >>

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is >>

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was >>

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking >>

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by s >>

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Bierce, Ambrose