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Things Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
- Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
- EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
- PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great…
- ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,…
- EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our…
- REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid…
- INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
- INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,…
- There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do…
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
- IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was…
- Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to…
- A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle