Ambrose Bierce
  • War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

  • What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

  • Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

  • Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

  • Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.