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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 8

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Peace, Government, Hands

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 16

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Law, Justice, Mixtures

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Important, Existence, Distinguished

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Country, Responsibility, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Philosophy, Doctrine, Forests

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Patience, Revenge, Planning

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Hypocrite, Doe, Virtue

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

Food, Animal, Pigs

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

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love, Funny, Marriage

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Sarcastic, Mad, Intellectual

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.126, e-artnow

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Morning, Sleep, Insomnia

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.49, University of Georgia Press

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Leadership, Philosophy, Math

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

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Life, Ocean, Musical

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Life, Death, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

Art, Blessed, Science

"The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Country, Stupid, Power

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Food, Science, Men

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

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Pigs, Law, Machines

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Desire, Weight, Reason

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

Religion, World, Evidence

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Education, Math, Thinking

"The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Vision, Cynicism, Cynic

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 63

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Liars, Science, Imagination

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.96, 谷月社

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