Quotes by Journalists

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Ambrose Bierce

Life Best Give Up Them Thing Things

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce

Positive Top Voice Mistaken

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Ambrose Bierce

Drunk Ancient Deity Invented Excuse Getting Getting Drunk Convenient

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Ambrose Bierce

Side Determine Examining Deliberation Bread Which Act Buttered

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce

Miserable Adjective Conspicuously Famous

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Ambrose Bierce

Wealth Power Consideration Advantages Dead Praise Person Either Eulogy Who

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Ambrose Bierce

Financial Tribe Dreaded Beyond Dwelling Creditor Savages

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Ambrose Bierce

Joke Clever Philistine Pleased Seldom Remark Sharp Call Quoted Noted

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce

Youth Experience Enthusiasm Repentance Small Outward Doses Connection Applications

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce

Degree Consist Solemnity High Ability Mainly Commonly Found

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Ambrose Bierce

People Out Absence Absent Friends Really

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce

You Wish Bore Him Talks Person Listen Who

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Ambrose Bierce

Others Everything Total Abstain Affairs Inactivity Who

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce

Positive Top Adjective Voice Mistaken

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Bierce

Love Knowledge Quality Distinguishes Ardor Without

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce

Weather Kind Having Instrument Which Ingenious Barometer

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. Ambrose Bierce

Thinking Admiral Part Talking Does Which While Figurehead

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. Ambrose Bierce

Alien State His American Sovereign

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. Ambrose Bierce

Gossip Historian

Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them. Amy Chozick

Book Before Wilde Football Head Football Games Understood Years Friday Friday Night Up Jack Buried San San Antonio Dork Them Really Games Growing Growing Up Oscar Oscar Wilde Night

Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s - when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election - had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton? Amy Chozick

Life Buy Decision Election Single Every Married About Had Major Freeze Until Hillary Hillary Clinton Looming Around Clinton Question Get Eggs Get Married Where After Whether Apartment

Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career. Amy Chozick

Women Cause Husband Lawyer Ambition Own Would Imperfect Throughout Put Arkansas She Feminist Clinton Vessel Moved Movement Hold Height View Who Many Her Career

Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties. Amy Chozick

Say Invited Parties Lot Get Just