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Ambrose Bierce

  • Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • 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.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
    Ambrose Bierce
  • Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
    Ambrose Bierce

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