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Type: Journalist Quotes Category: American Journalist Quotes Date of Birth: June 24, 1842 Year of Death: 1914 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Ambrose Bierce Related Authors: Erma Bombeck Glenn Beck Hunter S. Thompson Ann Coulter Paul Harvey Dave Barry Walter Cronkite Bill O'Reilly |
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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.
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Ambrose Bierce Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. Ambrose Bierce Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. Ambrose Bierce Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Ambrose Bierce Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Ambrose Bierce Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Ambrose Bierce Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Ambrose Bierce Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. Ambrose Bierce Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Ambrose Bierce Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. Ambrose Bierce Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Ambrose Bierce |
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