Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Quotes
		Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. Ambrose Bierce Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Journalist Quotes Category: American Journalist Quotes Date of Birth: June 24, 1842 Year of Death: 1914 Nationality: American Amazon: Ambrose Bierce on Amazon	Related Authors: Erma Bombeck Glenn Beck Hunter S. Thompson Ann Coulter Paul Harvey Dave Barry Walter Cronkite Bill O'Reilly
		Select Ambrose Bierce Quotations: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Ambrose Bierce War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Ambrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
Quote Keywords: Degree, Laziness, Low, Manner, Person, Repose, Unwarranted	Dictionary Links: Degree, Laziness, Low, Manner, Person, Repose, Unwarranted	All Ambrose Bierce Quotations: A man is known by the... A person who doubts himself is... A total abstainer is one who... Ability is commonly found to consist... Abscond - to move in a mysterious... Absence blots people out. We really... Abstainer: a weak person who yields... Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly... Academe, n.: An ancient school where... Acquaintance. A person whom we know... Admiral. That part of a warship... Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's... Alien - an American sovereign in his... All are lunatics, but he who... Alliance - in international politics, the union... Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with... Ambition. An overmastering desire to be... Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to... An egotist is a person of... Anoint, v.: To grease a king... Architect. One who drafts a plan... Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes... Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented... Backbite. To speak of a man... Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates... Battle, n., A method of untying... Beauty, n: the power by which... Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful... Bigot: One who is obstinately and... Bore, n. A person who talks... Brain: an apparatus with which we... Bride: A woman with a fine... Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable... Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes... Childhood: the period of human life intermediate... Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a... Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting... Confidante: One entrusted by A with... Conservative, n: A statesman who is... Consul - in American politics, a person... Consult: To seek approval for a... Convent - a place of retirement for... Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit... Coward: One who, in a perilous... Creditor. One of a tribe of... Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of... Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty... Dawn: When men of reason go... Day, n. A period of twenty... Death is not the end. There... Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for... Deliberation, n.: The act of examining... Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime... Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and... Dog - a kind of additional or... Doubt begins only at the last... Doubt is the father of invention. Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in... Duty - that which sternly impels us... Edible - good to eat and wholesome... Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and... Education, n.: That which discloses the... Egotism, n: Doing the New York... Egotist: a person more interested in... Eloquence, n. The art of orally... Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable... Erudition - dust shaken out of a... Eulogy. Praise of a person who... Experience - the wisdom that enables us... Experience is a revelation in the... Faith: Belief without evidence in what... Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those... Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed... Fork: An instrument used chiefly for... Friendless. Having no favors to bestow... Future. That period of time in... Genealogy, n. An account of one's... Genius - to know without having learned... Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating... Heaven lies about us in our... Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. History is an account, mostly false... I believe we shall come to... I never said all Democrats were... Immortality: A toy which people cry... Impartial - unable to perceive any promise... Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. In our civilization, and under our... Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes... Insurance - an ingenious modern game of... Inventor: A person who makes an... Irreligion - the principal one of the... It is evident that skepticism, while... Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation... Land: A part of the earth's... Lawsuit: A machine which you go... Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in... Learning, n. The kind of ignorance... Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the... Litigant. A person about to give... Litigation: A machine which you go... Logic: The art of thinking and... Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Mad, adj. Affected with a high... Marriage, n: the state or condition... Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which... Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a... Men become civilized, not in proportion... Ocean: A body of water occupying... Optimism - the doctrine or belief that... Painting, n.: The art of protecting... Patience, n. A minor form of... Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the... Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves... Philosophy: A route of many roads... Photograph: a picture painted by the... Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Politics: A strife of interests masquerading... Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top... Pray: To ask the laws of... Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible... Prescription: A physician's guess at what... Present, n. That part of eternity... Quotation, n: The act of repeating... Religion. A daughter of Hope and... Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt... Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that... Sabbath - a weekly festival having its... Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Speak when you are angry and... Spring beckons! All things to the... Success is the one unpardonable sin... Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by... Sweater, n.: garment worn by child... Telephone, n. An invention of the... The best thing to do with... The covers of this book are... The future is that period of... The gambling known as business looks... The hardest tumble a man can... The slightest acquaintance with history shows that... The small part of ignorance that... There are four kinds of Homicide... To apologize is to lay the... To be positive is to be... Trial. A formal inquiry designed to... Vote: the instrument and symbol of... War is God's way of teaching... We know what happens to people... We submit to the majority because... What is a democrat? One who... What this country needs what every... When you doubt, abstain. Who never doubted, never half believed... Wit - the salt with which the... Witticism. A sharp and clever remark... Women in love are less ashamed...

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