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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 7

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, Wise, Wisdom

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Competition, Conversation, Catching

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

Iron, Water, Intellectual

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Beautiful, Italian, Two

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Marriage, Taste, Incompatibility

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Small Parts

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

Truth, Honesty, Women

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Friendship, Funny Friend, Weather

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Art, Philosophy, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Sarcastic, Courage, Peace

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Christian, Stupid, Helping

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Life, Virtue, Modern

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Friendship, Enough, Acquaintance

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

Men, Mind, Style

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Race, Wife, Cain

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Listening To Others, Bores You, Effective Listening

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Law, Lawyer

"The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

Adults, Males, Pants

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Numbers, Adults, United States

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.49, 谷月社

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

Science, Errors, Method

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quotations

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Religious, Tolerance, Infidelity

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

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Humorous, Profound, Ego

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

May, Faults, Made

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2690, Delphi Classics

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Disappointment, Years, Three

Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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