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Moochava: Listening to Roxy Music and reading about the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
GSWSyndicate: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
ewstoryoftheday: The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce - A man is called to give evidence at the coroner's inquiry into the violent d ...
weatherStorey: birth, n:
The first and direst of all disasters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
BeforeGuild: Not really hot take but
Ambrose Bierce > Mark Twain
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
chinnypanda_: Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
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JPMachado65: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, written by Ambrose Bierce
Read all about it here:
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
GSWSyndicate: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose__Bierce: These two old Italian chaps across the street just shouting at each other for like 45 mins in Italian and I still can’t tell if they’re happy or angry
seth_stafford: An amusing Big Tech homage to Ambrose Bierce's classic "Devil's Dictionary"
MarinaStavrou9: "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
WizardBot666: IS QUOTED FROM GREGORIAN TO AMBROSE BIERCE? HARVEY OSWALD? If he had Slack they will deny or not.
HariRVA: 'HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.' - AMBROSE BIERCE
MotivAppBot: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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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
amlitreader: US Civil War began today in 1861, enjoy Ambrose Bierce's most famous short story.
Grant_Forks: When I thought it was just Lovecraft, I was “OK the dudes a racist but he seems broken in a lot of ways....”
But Lovecraft looks downright progressive when stacked up against Ambrose Bierce.
And Robert Chambers is at least as vile as Lovecraft, but flies below the radar.
sukasukasaja3: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. (Ambrose Bierce)
MotivAppBot: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
[Ambrose Bierce]
RolfRothuizen: "Litigation is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage."
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JungianThings: I’m reminded of a quote by Ambrose Bierce, where he defined a Yankee as...
An American.
To an American, a Yankee is a northerner.
To a northerner, it’s a New Englander.
To a New Englander, it’s someone from CT.
And to someone from CT, it’s a man who likes pie for breakfast.
GSWSyndicate: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
gwynethgeta: Reading The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce makes me laugh so hard
welfordwrites: It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
chinnypanda_: Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
-Ambrose Bierce
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chinnypanda_: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
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GeliRaubal1: 'There are two instruments worse than a clarinet -- two clarinets.' Ambrose Bierce
MHollowyn: FREE BOOKS were great guests! Highly recommend as they are super easy to communicate with and left the place very clean! The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
ProfoundlyReas1: Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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mwecker: I'd have to go with Ambrose Bierce meets Alfred Jarry.
Brother_Mothman: I think this is another wonderful use of the “King in Yellow” mythos. Starting all the way back with Ambrose Bierce to Chambers etc. You were able to capture the feelings they had laid down of early cosmic anxieties and really made them your own to great affect!
TheHabitFactor: "HABIT, n. A shackle for the free."
- Ambrose Bierce
AvaSchiffer: Radar: who never doubted, never half believed. where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Ambrose Bierce
CerebralWisdom: 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
EelRiverBrewing: Non-Drinker: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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JohnCarenen: From Ambrose Bierce: “Bigot, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.”
AngerIssueQuote: Speak
when
you
are
angry
and
you
will
make
the
best
speech
you
will
ever
regret.
~Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose__Bierce: Feel like "the only good Indians"(Jones) and "death in her hands" (moshfegh) have similar elements to "drive your plow"(tokarczuk)
chinnypanda_: Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
-Ambrose Bierce
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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
HariRVA: “In the beginning the Universe was created.” 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
smiffy: Ah, it’s from a Mark Twain account. Just reading it, I thought it was Ambrose Bierce.
AndrewPMunro: Or “thought leadership” as might have been defined in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil's Dictionary”: “the remarkable phenomenon in which perfection is achieved through a lack of practice.”
minabelser: Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce
roadtoserfdom3: "Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
-Ambrose Bierce
roy_handy: Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
LeoheavenH: “ A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. “
—Ambrose Bierce
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weatherStorey: Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
FddyRr: ghostman: JACKANORY A RESUMED IDENTITY BY AMBROSE BIERCE
DanBtdark: Alone: In bad Company
-Ambrose Bierce
tomenos_: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose__Bierce: The baby is babbling/learning sounds so she’ll just randomly be like “dub dubdubdub dub dub ...dub” and I’m like “YAS Babe we can’t stop winning, girl!”
welfordwrites: Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce
beyourhome: Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. - Ambrose Bierce
GSWSyndicate: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
nkatha_synaida: Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce
CollectedQuotes: Mankind... infests the whole habitable Earth and Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce
vaprenderingles: Staley Fleming's Hallucination - Ambrose Bierce
HariRVA: “And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the second He took it away He turned around and walked back inside his house.” AMBROSE BIERCE
HariRVA: In the beginning the universe was created. This contradicts the Bible, which says that the first creature was a pig.
“In the beginning the universe was created when the Earth was a little pig.” AMBROSE BIERCE
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
octofuzz: 2 of 5 stars to Terror by Night by Ambrose Bierce
godtouches: In the spirit od Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary:
Conservative: one who passionately promotes old evils;
Liberal: one who passionately promotes new evils;
Independent: One who resolutely sits on the fence.
weatherStorey: Deliberation, n.:
The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
buttered on.
-- 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
RickLondonGreen: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
DavidGrayless: 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"
ewstoryoftheday: One Of Twins by Ambrose Bierce - One half of a pair of absolutely identical twins tells of the strange, supernatu ...
weatherStorey: Happiness, n.:
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
RonAvitzur: al·go·rithm
/ˈalɡəˌriT͟Həm/
When programmers don't want to explain what they did
heu·ris·tic
/hyo͞oˈristik/
When programmers can't explain what they did
ma·chine learn·ing
/məˈSHēn ˈlərniNG/
When programmers don't know what they did
Ambrose Bierce, CS Dictionary, O'rly Press
welfordwrites: The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
Civ4TechQuotesE: "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
nottriciaaaa: Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-Ambrose Bierce
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attyponath: "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose__Bierce: *all kids crying at once*
*me, in extreme Eiffel 65 voice*
“I’m in blue house with a blue window”
GSWSyndicate: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
RobHaynie1: “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” – Ambrose Bierce
kycinee_: Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-Ambrose Bierce
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nottriciaaaa: It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
-Ambrose Bierce
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vaprenderingles: One Summer Night - Ambrose Bierce
RickLondonGreen: The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. ~Ambrose Bierce
bvrpenteado: Commerce: "A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E." - Ambrose Bierce
vaprenderingles: A Diagnosis of Death - Ambrose Bierce
KaplanSJ: “Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball.” Ambrose Bierce
KitchensNicolas: "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Ambrose Bierce
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
CivilWarHumor: I’m called elsewhere today, but since it’s the anniversary of Shiloh, why not spend a few minutes with the great Ambrose Bierce? His “What I Saw of Shiloh” is one of the best first-hand accounts of a Civil War battle you'll ever read ...
RickLondonGreen: Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. ~Ambrose Bierce
RianRobertson: Ambrose Bierce in "The Devil's Dictionary" (1906):
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Proposed modern-day addition:
EPIDEMIOLOGIST, n. One skilled in the circumvention of general public health whilst in the pursuit of improving a specific health outcome
Claudiakfauzi: Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
PatrickKerin1: Ambrose Bierce: What He Saw of Shiloh--April 6-7, 1862
PatrickKerin1: Ambrose Bierce: What He Saw of Shiloh--April 6-7, 1862
PatrickKerin1: Ambrose Bierce: What He Saw of Shiloh--April 6-7, 1862
