Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 2

American - Journalist June 24, 1842 - 1914

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Jealousy Jealous Lost Worth

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Virtue About Who Fidelity

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Nature Spring Trees Leaving

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thinking Satisfaction Nothing He

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Knowledge Small Ignorance Name

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Love Knowledge Quality Without

When you doubt, abstain.

Wisdom You Doubt Abstain

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

Art Sun Picture Photograph

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Beautiful Ugly Optimism Everything

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.

Good Man Snake Eat

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Truth Doubt May Lead

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Art Thinking Misunderstanding Human

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Failure Man Person Like

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

People Die Lie Proud

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Intelligence Government Office Our

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

Patience Revenge Worth Planning

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Think Brain Which Apparatus

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Light Age Experience Youth

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Life Spiritual Body Pickle

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Soul Genius Know Things

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Man Fall Own Over

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Four Kinds Homicide Praiseworthy

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Madness Rum Fiery Total

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Happiness Future Time Friends True

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Personal Promise Any Side

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Recognition Admiration Our Ourselves

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