[ ambrose bierce Quotes ]
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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
[ Oceans ]
Ambrose Bierce
19 votes
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
[ Coward and Cowardice ]
Ambrose Bierce
24 votes
A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
[ Cynics and Cynicism ]
Ambrose Bierce
8 votes
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
[ Funerals ]
Ambrose Bierce
25 votes
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
[ Perseverance ]
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27 votes
A man is known by the company he organizes.
[ Management ]
Ambrose Bierce
7 votes
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
[ Prejudice ]
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19 votes
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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20 votes
A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
[ Love ]
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7 votes
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
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21 votes
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
[ Abstinence ]
Ambrose Bierce
29 votes
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
[ Absurdity ]
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13 votes
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
[ Acquaintance ]
Ambrose Bierce
26 votes
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
[ Army and Navy ]
Ambrose Bierce
30 votes
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
[ Praise ]
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19 votes
Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
[ Immigration ]
Ambrose Bierce
10 votes
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Ambrose Bierce
10 votes
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
[ Misfortunes ]
Ambrose Bierce
23 votes
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
[ Acquaintance ]
Ambrose Bierce
20 votes
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
[ Egotism ]
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26 votes
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
[ Architecture ]
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14 votes
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
[ Slander ]
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11 votes
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
[ Beauty ]
Ambrose Bierce
29 votes
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
[ Medicine ]
Ambrose Bierce
30 votes
Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
[ Bigotry ]
Ambrose Bierce
15 votes
Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Ambrose Bierce
13 votes
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
[ Calamity ]
Ambrose Bierce
19 votes
Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
[ Gossip ]
Ambrose Bierce
13 votes
Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
[ Advice ]
Ambrose Bierce
20 votes
Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
[ Nuns ]
Ambrose Bierce
20 votes
Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
[ Business ]
Ambrose Bierce
17 votes
Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
[ Deliberation ]
Ambrose Bierce
19 votes
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
[ Destiny ]
Ambrose Bierce
13 votes
Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
[ Divorce ]
Ambrose Bierce
13 votes
Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
[ Business ]
Ambrose Bierce
25 votes
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
[ Duty ]
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23 votes
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
[ Egotism ]
Ambrose Bierce
19 votes
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
[ Scholars and Scholarship ]
Ambrose Bierce
12 votes
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
[ Experience ]
Ambrose Bierce
27 votes