Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to

Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Art
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Women
category

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber

Category:
Women

As long as there are women in the world, men will have a greatly exaggerated idea of how many things take care of themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Women

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. – E. M. Forster

Category:
Women

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. – Edward Dahlbert

Category:
Women

Random Quotes

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. – Anthony Anderson

Category:
Family

Ive said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. – B. B. King

Category:
Music

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. – Daniel D. Palmer

Category:
Knowledge

When you are through changing, you are through. – Bruce Barton

Category:
Change