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Quotedb: The Quotations Database

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

155

"PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

The Devil's Dictionary

156

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."

157

"Logic - the act of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding."

The Devil's Dictionary

158

"You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged fourteen hundred and forty times a day."

153

"LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient."

The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

154

"NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient."

The Devil's Dictionary, 1911