Quotessence
Home / Authors / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Journalist

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenSciencePersonsHumourKindTwoFoodCulinaryLifeWorldCookingFunnyThinkingArtHumorKnowsLiteratureIfsKnownStates

Famous Ambrose Bierce Quotes

“BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.”

MenFirstsMadeEarthScienceWaterBornKnownCenturyHumourSonGrewBirthHolyGrew UpStonesWineDisasterHolesBlockEggsPriestsLightningStrokesSkullsUniformityCellarsCavernsHoly Water
Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Create image

“MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.”

HumansTwoLightScienceWhiteActingSubjectsThousandScientistDefinitionsAdvancementMagnetHuman KnowledgeMagnetismWhite Light
Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
Create image