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Grave Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
- Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
- GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
- POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,…
- APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
- BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
- Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan.…
- Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings
More Grave Quotes
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally… — Berkeley Breathed
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck