Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failur >>

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in th >>

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, a >>

Quotations about Trials

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who cha >>

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurym >>

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or qui >>

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Bierce, Ambrose