Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already su

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Age
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Logic
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
History
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
great

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

Category:
great

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. – Lord Byron

Category:
great

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
great

Random Quotes

When I find someone who is worth it, Ill be nice and respect that person and put some time in. – Ed Westwick

Category:
respect

Wealthy men cant live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. – Ayrton Senna

Category:
Men

You are doomed to make choices. This is lifes greatest paradox. – Wayne Dyer

Category:
Life

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. – William E. Gladstone

Category:
Government