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

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

Category:
Age
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
category

Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

Random Quotes

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting – its kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about. – Hillary Clinton

Category:
Change

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You dont know it. – James Lovelock

Category:
Hope

It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grandmother. – Author Unknown

Category:
Grandparents

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. – William Arthur Ward

Category:
Opportunities