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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 32

All Quotes Accidents Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Army Art Assumption Atheism Attitude Authority Beauty Belief Boundaries Business Certainty Change Character Cheating Childhood Children Choices Church Clarinet Confusion Cooking Country Creation Critics Culture Cynicism Death Democracy Desire Devil Diplomacy Disappointment Doubt Drinking Dying Earth Education Ego Energy Envy Eternity Evidence Evil Excellence Expectations Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fear Feelings Finance Food Friendship Funeral Funny Future Genius Giving God Gold Growth Guilt Happiness Hatred Heart Heaven Hell History Home Honor Hope House Ignorance Imagination Independence Injustice Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Joy Judging Judgment Justice Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Literature Logic Losing Love Lying Marriage Math Military Money Morality Motherhood Music Nature Nihilism Office Opportunity Optimism Passion Past Patriotism Peace Philosophy Pleasure Politics Power Prejudice Preparation Pride Property Prosperity Purpose Quality Reality Religion Responsibility Revenge Revolution Running Sacrifice School Science Silence Sin Skins Son Soul Spirituality Spring Stupidity Style Success Suffering Taxes Temptation Theology Time Truth Understanding Violence Virtue Wall War Water Wealth Wife Wine Wisdom Work Worship Writing Youth

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Art, War, Products

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.134, Courier Corporation

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

Order, White, House

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Choices, Decision, Made

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

Country, Virtue, Introducing

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.108, Courier Corporation

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

New York, Nerves

Ambrose Bierce (1967). “Letters”

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Growth, Devil, Vices

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.95, 谷月社

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Mistake, Eels, Agitation

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

Skins, Foxes, Ass

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.49, Courier Corporation

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Love, Philosophy, Names

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Funny, Humorous, Party

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Truth, Deceptive, Presumption

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.39, Sheba Blake Publishing

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Beauty, Husband, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Tears, Legacy

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Marriage, World, Ill

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Peace, Powerful, War

Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Spring, Believe, Science

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Reality, Connections, Enthusiasm

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.68, Courier Corporation

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success, Thought Provoking, Sin

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Thinking, Brain, Mind

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 39

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Hands, Tree, Splinters

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Death, Suicide, Grief

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.92, University of Georgia Press

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Leadership, New York, Cities

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.221, ReadHowYouWant.com

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Strong, Adversity, Animal

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.38, 谷月社

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Achievement, Pay, Equal

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

Nature, Animal, Nurse

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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