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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambrose Bierce quotes

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

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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet? two clarinets. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it..."
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff."
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce
Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. Ambrose Bierce
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. Ambrose Bierce
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be..."
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be..."
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did..."
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce
History? An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record..."
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce

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