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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambrose Bierce quotes

American Journalist, Writer June 24, 1842 – January 11, 1914

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love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she 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 the patient. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be..."
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him. Ambrose Bierce
On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life. Ambrose Bierce
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give..."
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. 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
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. Ambrose Bierce
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises."
Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as..."
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. Ambrose Bierce
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. Ambrose Bierce

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