AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
More Quotes from Ambrose Bierce:
CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.Ambrose Bierce
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as ... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
Ambrose Bierce
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Ambrose Bierce
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
Ambrose Bierce
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
Ambrose Bierce
REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Ambrose Bierce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age Quotes, Life Quotes, Vice & Virtue QuotesBased on Keywords: compound, reviling
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.
Lindsey Buckingham
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Thomas Lynch