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

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.