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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 16

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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Men, Speak, Slander

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

War, Army, Thinking

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.568, Library of America

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

Dream, Assumption, Theology

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Science, Physicians, Graves

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Science, Disorder, Bowels

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Science, Function, Humour

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

Would Be, Size, Magnitude

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Success, Congratulations, Envy

Noise: a stench in the ear.

Silence, Ears, Noise

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.732, Library of America

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Variables, Sometimes, Conviction

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Country, War, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “A Son of the Gods and Horseman in the Sky”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

Christian, Children, Humorous

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Food, Wine, Drunk

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Marriage, Letting Go, Machines

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.241, tredition

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Time, Lying, Childhood

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Friendship, Adversity, Privilege

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

Fashion, Learning, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

Heart, Animal, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Divine Right, Bombs, Investing

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.36, 谷月社

renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

Hands, Littles, Degrees

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Leadership, Followers

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.8, 谷月社

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Echoes, Applause, Platitudes

'The Cynic's Word Book' (1906) p. 19

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Repose, Cease

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

Grieving, Glasses, Aquariums

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2379, Delphi Classics

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Life, Children, Two

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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