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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. — Ambrose Bierce
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,… — Ambrose Bierce
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man… — Ambrose Bierce
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)… — Ambrose Bierce
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the… — Steven Biko
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose… — Buffalo Bill
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet… — Buffalo Bill
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. — Josh Billings
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. — Josh Billings
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. — Josh Billings
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. — Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. — Josh Billings
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since. — Josh Billings
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. — Josh Billings
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much,… — Jacqueline Bisset
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly… — Hugo Black
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in… — Jack Black

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