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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914): All Quotations: |
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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