Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idioc

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

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Funerals
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin

Category:
Age

I do think I feel it but you dont think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you dont think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. Its been a long fifty years. – Bob Geldof

Category:
Age

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Age

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. – John Mayer

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. – Dita Von Teese

Category:
Internet

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

Category:
History

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

Category:
Fear

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you cant do anything to your performance once youve laid it on film. – Amber Heard

Category:
Home