Friendless. Having no favors to bestow.... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

Writer journalist Truth Fortune satirist

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Profit

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

- Ambrose Bierce

Power

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

- Ambrose Bierce

Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.

- Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

- Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

- Ambrose Bierce

Business

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

- Ambrose Bierce

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