Litigant. A person about to give up his... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Spring Trees

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

- Ambrose Bierce

World

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

- Ambrose Bierce

Attitude

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

- Ambrose Bierce

Fact God World

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

- Ambrose Bierce

Civilization

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

- Ambrose Bierce

Women Love

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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