Author Topic: ~ Ambrose Bierce Quotes ~ (Read 6854 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:38:20 AM »

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:38:46 AM »

Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:39:14 AM »

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:39:45 AM »

Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:40:15 AM »

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:40:45 AM »

A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:41:12 AM »

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:41:42 AM »

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:42:14 AM »

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:42:43 AM »

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:43:10 AM »

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:43:41 AM »

Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:44:08 AM »

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:44:38 AM »

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** November 19, 2013, 09:45:05 AM »

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

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