PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling ones credibility for future delivery. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce
Category:
Author
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce
Category:
Author
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce
Category:
Author
Other Quotes from
Prophecy
category
Random Quotes
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Category:
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981
Category: