Ambrose Bierce Quotes
22 Ambrose Bierce quotes:
"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
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Happiness Quotes
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
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Art Quotes
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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Art Quotes
"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
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History Quotes
"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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Legal Quotes
Words Quotes
"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
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Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes
"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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Education Quotes
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
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Anger Quotes
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
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Experience Quotes
"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
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Women Quotes
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
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Business Quotes
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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Nature Quotes
"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."
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Beauty Quotes
"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
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Happiness Quotes
"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
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Marriage Quotes
"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
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Education Quotes
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
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Business Quotes
"Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
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Time Quotes
"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
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Wedding Quotes
"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
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Power Quotes
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