Ambrose Bierce quotes - page 10

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. (Ambrose Bierce)
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. View quote
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. View quote
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. View quote
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. View quote
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. View quote
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. View quote
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Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. View quote
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. View quote
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. View quote
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. (Ambrose Bierce)
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. View quote
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. View quote
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. View quote
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. View quote
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. View quote
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. View quote
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. View quote
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. View quote
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. View quote
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. (Ambrose Bierce)
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. View quote
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. View quote
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. View quote
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. View quote
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