Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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