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Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
Baba_G_Quotes: Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
ArchieG1946: “Obsolete, adj. No longer used by the timid.”
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
xamexavu: Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit
without individual responsibility.
― Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Ambrose__Bierce: *doorbell rings*
Me, downstairs: WHO IS IT!?!?
Wife, main floor: delivery
Me:BEER??????
Her: no, stuff for the house and kids
Me: (silence)
QuiteUninterest: “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
— Ambrose Bierce, “The Cynic’s Word Book” (1906)
stuberk625: “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
— Ambrose Bierce, “The Cynic’s Word Book” (1906)
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
iamkimalcoser19: RUNTOME EP1 ON KUMU
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose__Bierce: All the squirrels near my house have different coloured hair on their body vs tails and alI can think is what happened to ya little buddy, fall in a can of paint or something or what lol
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
_penseepositive: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret - Ambrose Bierce ✨
tk_howell: I found a home for what I considered to be a super-niche weird short about Ambrose Bierce being pestered by the devil in the Mexican wilderness... I do love the sheer variety of lit mags out in the world
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
RickLondonGreen: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
gothficbot: Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
jawneigh: “ under ” lists are great because the longer you wait to become relevant the bigger chance you have of making the list
RickLondonGreen: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
Thouotes: "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." — Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
2l3DnUXTnARw1OK: Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce
ReganMacarthur: I like how Ambrose Bierce defined the word "Lottery."
"A tax on people who are bad at math."
welfordwrites: It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
Babouc: “Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Mairaj93750130: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
KungFuShoesSays: "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Ambrose Bierce
zariyand: SHUTUP WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
CerebralWisdom: The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce
mclain_merriann: A saint is a sinner revised and edited - Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
1r41s: 3 of 5 stars to Beyond the Wall by Ambrose Bierce
Waheed50380613: "Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Ambrose Bierce
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TenFleming: “Magnet, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.
Magnetism, n. Something acting upon a magnet.” (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary).
TenFleming: “Magnet. Magnetism, n. “The two definitions are condensed from the works of 1000 eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.” (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary).
truefactsbot: In total, Americans in Scotland." AMBROSE BIERCE
enkohl: Next up on our list is Ambrose Bierce, aka "Bitter" Bierce. Just look at this cranky visage. He was a star reporter at Heart's San Francisco Examiner, uncovering the Central Pacific Railroad's plot to have their outstanding loans forgiven by the US government.
mevuxa: Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not
well enough to lend to.
― Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
GSWSyndicate: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
GSWSyndicate: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
welfordwrites: Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce
AncientWisdomHQ: "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
- Ambrose Bierce
AlisyaSadler: Ambrose Bierce “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
LarsSchall: "Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style."
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 8 (1911), Epigrams, p. 345.
Fact: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
keaplin: "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Sy_Kla22: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
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Yeshevav: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography".
- Ambrose Bierce
TheAstroBlog: Latest Science Quote: “There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don’t know.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 – 1914)
Richard96953611: “History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools”
— Ambrose Bierce
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UnixFortuneBot: The distinction between Freedom and Liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have been unable to find a living specimen of either. -- Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
jeffmanhilot: Emotions are essential in moving people to action. But if left unchecked, they may lead us to do things we may not be proud of.
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce”
Let us run our emotions,…
photoquotesbot: Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art - Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
RickLondonGreen: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
RaspiArduino: Ambition, n:
An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce
welfordwrites: The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
xiopaoasado: — An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce [ ★★★★☆ ] 20220319
suavechishty: Religion: A daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
ratatoskM15: ROAD
-n.
A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
jeremybutman: Wild American of the day is Ambrose Bierce, writer, author of the Devil’s Dictionary, civil war soldier, co-founder of the Bohemian Club, to which eventually both George H.W. Bush and Bob Weir belonged. Disappeared after embedding with Pancho Villa’s army.
RaspiArduino: A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention,
and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
ThePresesent: The disappearance of author Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
orpheus_laments: Freedom by Ambrose Bierce
DedicatioQuotes: Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. ~ Ambrose Bierce
SafetyASAP: Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. -Ambrose Bierce
AtkinsonJohn7: Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
-Ambrose Bierce, from the Devil’s Dictionary
RaspiArduino: Alliance, n.:
In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot
separately plunder a third.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
RamonSomoza1: The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
gob_pile: I like Edgar Allan Poe, B.Traven, and Ambrose Bierce. Graham Greene.
DavidGrayless: birth, n:
The first and direst of all disasters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
welfordwrites: An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
mostrowski52: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Before the award-winning 1961 French film was shown on The Twilight Zone in 1964, Alfred Hitchcock Presents did a version in 1959 with more background & plot, and characters not in the original Ambrose Bierce story. Homework: compare & contrast.
ClaroRebeca: Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce
WolfgangHutter2: What I think when anyone (especially these YA, Harry Potter loving mental infants) decry the character and heroism of men like Lee or Forrest because they fought for the Confederacy (from a poem by Ambrose Bierce).
Dorotheacalm: “Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce, American Civil War veteran, journalist and novelist
paulanthonythor: Looking at the people who still believe in Brexit and in its success, it is time to resurrect this quote from Ambrose Bierce:
Idiot: one part of a great and powerful tribe.
From 'The Devil's Dictionary.'
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
UnixFortuneBot: Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
UnixFortuneBot: air, n.: A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
bret_jensen: “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”― Ambrose Bierce
ElsieSnuffin: "When you doubt, abstain." ~ Ambrose Bierce
Civ4TechQuotesE: "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
Coyote_Astuta: "Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
—Ambrose Bierce
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ezedozitt21: “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” — Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
GSWSyndicate: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
Eric_Conn: “Mythology was the body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origins, early history, heroes, deities, and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.” Ambrose Bierce
AtkinsonJohn7: Congress, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
-Ambrose Bierce, from the Devil’s Dictionary
GSWSyndicate: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
CerebralWisdom: Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. - Ambrose Bierce
Zaphod_44: Fortune cookie for 05/11/2022
Disobedience: The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
-- Ambrose Bierce
