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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Born: Jun 24, 1842
Died: 1914
About Adjective His Man Person Politics
Related authors: Charles Krauthammer Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
Doubt is the father of invention. Ambrose Bierce
Father Invention Doubt
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
Politics Strife Advantage Masquerading Principles Contest Affairs Private Conduct Public Public Affairs Interests
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Ambrose Bierce
Politics Conservative Others Liberal Statesman Distinguished Evils Wishes Enamored Existing Replace Them Who
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. Ambrose Bierce
Country Ruin Ruined Would Democrat Democrats Republican Republicans Who Believes
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
Art Picture Sun Photograph Instruction Without Painted
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce
Art Strict Thinking Logic Limitations Misunderstanding Accordance Human Reasoning
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. Ambrose Bierce
Kinds Praiseworthy Homicide Four
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Ambrose Bierce
Philosopher Analyze He Delusions His Who Lunatics
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Ambrose Bierce
Truth Truth Is Half Doubt Shadow Never Where Doubted Who Believed Her
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce
Hypocrisy Most Acceptable Politeness
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
Business Responsibility Profit Corporation Individual Individual Responsibility Device Obtaining Without Ingenious
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce
Mom Mother Feeling Worn Child Chilly Sweater Garment
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce
Coward Emergency Perilous His Legs Who Thinks
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce
Dead Edited Saint Sinner Revised
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce
Politics Thieves Other Inserted Plunder Pockets Alliance Hands Cannot Separately Union Who International Each Deeply Two Third
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. Ambrose Bierce
Patience Revenge Worth Meekness Uncommon While Planning
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce
You Machine Out Come Pig Go Which Litigation Sausage
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce
Patriotism Rubbish Torch Name Ready His Ambitious Any Illuminate
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
Government Intelligence Cares Our Honored Civilization Highly Exemption Office Rewarded Form Republican
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
History Events Fools Soldiers Rulers Brought About Knave Mostly False Account Which Unimportant
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce
Pleasure Weak Temptation Himself Denying Yields Person Who
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce
Art Weather Painting Critic Protecting Flat Them Exposing
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce
Single Universe Laws Unworthy Pray Behalf Ask
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
Virtue Those About Betrayed Fidelity Who Peculiar
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Ambrose Bierce
Nothing Philosophy Roads Leading Many Nowhere Route
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce
Man Fall Own Over Make His Tumble Bluff Hardest
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