Ambrose Bierce Quotes

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Ambrose Bierce

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 24, 1842

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 is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

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When you doubt, abstain.

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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

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

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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

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