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.

  • Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  • Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  • Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.