Ambrose Quotes

You don't want to pick a family that just created a fund they don't have a history in. - Gary Ambrose

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. - Stephen Ambrose

You cannot kill that city... I bet there's people saying, I've got to go back.' - Stephen Ambrose

You can take the day off. - Stephen Ambrose

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. - Ambrose Bierce

YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language --a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life. - Lauren Ambrose

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
(See DAMNYANK.) - Ambrose Bierce