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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambrose Bierce quotes

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

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Ambrose Bierce quote: "It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change..."
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong..."
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter..."
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. Ambrose Bierce
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it... Ambrose Bierce
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and..."
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. Ambrose Bierce
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. Ambrose Bierce
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. 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
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of..."
Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of..."
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce
In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply ... many 'awful examples'... Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce quote: "Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to..."
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Ambrose Bierce

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