Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Period Quotations

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace.Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it -- Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it'Twere easy to do.They're working by night and by day On their problem, like moles. Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray, On their meddlesome souls! --Ro Amil

Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

INFANCY, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.