Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect

Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect

Take not Gods name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:

Author

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:

Author

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

Category:

Author

Other Quotes from

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

category

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common – William Nazlitt

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Twas but my tongue, twas not my soul that swore. – Euripides

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Random Quotes

I want to travel. Maybe Ill end up living in Norway, making cakes. – Eva Green

Category:

But the fact is, Im not work-identified. Im not a lawyer or a writer. Im a mom, and Im a woman, and thats the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role. – Lisa Scottoline

Category:

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

Category:

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. – Newt Gingrich

Category: