Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorIn international affairs, peace is a period of traps between two struggles.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorThe voter enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for a candidate chosen by others.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorDoubt is the mother of discovery.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorThere is nothing new under the sun, but how many old things there are that we do not know.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorQuoting is a way of repeating another person's words erroneously.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorWar is a method of untying with the teeth a political knot that cannot be undone with the tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorAutoevidente: evidente para uno mismo, pero no para los demás
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorNo take the name of God in vain; choose the moment when it takes effect.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorA man is like a tree: In a forest of his peers, he will grow as straight as his individual and generic nature allows; only in open fields, he succumbs to the deforming tensions and twists that surround him.
Josh Billings
View AuthorLife consists not in having good cards, but in playing well the ones you have.
Carlo Bini
View AuthorI admire that head which proudly carries its misfortune, like a king his crown.
Carlo Bini
View AuthorOnly pain is the eternal king of the earth, and luck strikes with the left and snatches with the right.