Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

Noise: a stench in the ear. – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce