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Who Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
- Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would…
- Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
- Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is…
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man…
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
More Who Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle