Quotes by Bierce, Ambrose

Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy. >>

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit witho >>

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

Quotations about Childhood

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. >>

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood >>

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is >>

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Bierce, Ambrose