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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can’t catch it (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
A rabbit’s foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author’s contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... 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 (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone: A thousand critics shouting: He’s unknown! (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
An army’s bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only (Ambrose Bierce Quotes)