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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 12

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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

Latin

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.46, University of Georgia Press

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.

Truth, Liars

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Money, Latin, Character

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine, Men, Next

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

Doubt is the father of invention.

Father, Stupidity, Doubt

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Demand, Answers, Argument

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Faith, Science, Hands

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.124, 谷月社

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Laughter, Noise, Inarticulate

Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.100, Prabhat Prakashan

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Science, Men, Thieves

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.57, 谷月社

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

Life, Nature, Horse

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Temptation, Purpose, Impulse

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Greed, Tariffs, Scales

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Affair, Inactivity, Abstention

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Art, Magic, Coins

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Music, Guarding, Treasure

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2444, Delphi Classics

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

Justice, Made, Folly

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

Rights, Two Nations, History

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.28, University of Georgia Press

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Men, Self, Favors

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Politics, Lectures, Finance

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

Baptism, World, Firsts

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Selfish, Selfishness, Consideration

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.799, Library of America

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Past, Yesterday, Age

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

Dies, Sinning

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Cynical, Adultery, Cynicism

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