Author Topic: ~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes ~  (Read 6834 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2013, 09:28:29 AM »
Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.

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« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2013, 09:29:03 AM »
Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2013, 09:29:35 AM »
Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2013, 09:30:03 AM »
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2013, 09:30:35 AM »
Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2013, 09:33:38 AM »
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2013, 09:34:05 AM »
Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

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« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2013, 09:34:35 AM »
PRESIDENCY n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

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« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2013, 09:35:01 AM »
Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2013, 09:35:29 AM »
Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

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« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2013, 09:35:56 AM »
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

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« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2013, 09:36:27 AM »
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

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« Reply #27 on: November 19, 2013, 09:36:53 AM »
All are lunatics but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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« Reply #28 on: November 19, 2013, 09:37:20 AM »
Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

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« Reply #29 on: November 19, 2013, 09:37:48 AM »
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.