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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 30

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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Nature, Science, Admonition

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.183, University of Georgia Press

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

God, Years, Signals

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.24, 谷月社

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

Office, Purpose, Use

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.134, 谷月社

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Pride, Sound, Abjection

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2541, Delphi Classics

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

Rain, Fall, Fire

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.107, Courier Corporation

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

Science, Physicians, Body

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

Revenge, Cat, Violin

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

Age

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Graduation, School, Scandal

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Trying, Convince

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Imagination, Concern, Doings

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.210, 谷月社

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

Bishops

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Trust, Envy, Rich

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Death, Dying, Virtue

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Wall, Fall, Thinking

Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Wish, Tongue, Disorder

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.154, University of Georgia Press

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

Wise, Writing, Thinking

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Vision, World, Cynicism

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Pennies, Thrift, Saved

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.210, e-artnow

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Food, Cooking, Portugal

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Phoenix, Bird, Hot

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Wine, Yield, Mad

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Home, Animal, Tree

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Food, Cooking, Bankers

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Desire, Literature, Lines

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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