Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Time

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

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Time, Twenties, Four

Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.603, Library of America

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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Time, Power, Government

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

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Time, Future, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

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Time, Truth, Philosophy

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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

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Time, Lying, Childhood

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

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Time, Mind, Belief

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, Courier Corporation

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

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Life, Time, Age

Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

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Life, Time, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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Time, Nature, Punishment

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

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

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Time

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.170, 谷月社

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

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Time, Book, Men

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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Time, Power, Ubiquity

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社