Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fo

Summary

This quote is a tongue-in-cheek definition of the term "friendless." It humorously suggests that being friendless means not having any favors to offer or lacking wealth. It further implies that a friendless person may be inclined to speak the truth and express common sense, often disregarding the social conventions that people with more friends may adhere to. Overall, the quote plays on the idea that being friendless may actually be a result of having certain qualities or values that are not necessarily valued in society.

By Ambrose Bierce

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching tel

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

Sports

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad t

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Sad

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. Bu

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Food

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the pr

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Environmental

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the worl

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Humanity

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming s

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Belief

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an o

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Arthur C. Brooks

Alone

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but t

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

Religion

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself,

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

Nature Science

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the roa

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.

Truth