Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce  Quotes
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Proof
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something. A man of great wealth,...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Man
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
SATAN, n. One of the Creator’s lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused,...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Mistakes
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Affection
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
American JournalistPatience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Clothes
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M’bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Character
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig’s reply to proponents of porcophagy. Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher’s disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name. “”You...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your “”Unabridged”” presents, For dictionary makers...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Fashion
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel –than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Nations
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Treat things divine with marked respect – don’t have anything to do with them

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Civilization
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul....

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
American JournalistFuture
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy –that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
American JournalistPatriotic
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Mythology: the body of a primitive people’s beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
LINEN, n. “A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.” –Calcraft the Hangman.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Fools And Foolishness
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Pleasure
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are “movable” and “immovable,” but the...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
HYBRID, n. A pooled issue.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Acquaintance
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon’s fame suffers no diminution...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Custom
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors –to dislodge the worms.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Neighbors
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.””There is no art,”” says Shakespeare, foolish man,””To read...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Community
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
LAW, n.Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping.””Clear out!”” he cried, “”disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping. Upon your knees if you appear,’Tis plain your have no standing here.””Then Justice...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Character
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
RICHES, n.A gift from Heaven signifying, “”This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.”” –John D. RockefellerThe reward of toil and virtue. –J.P. MorganThe sayings of many in the hands of one....

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Heaven
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Moderation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Page 1 of 19
  • Next
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button