Ambrose Bierce on belief
Ambrose Bierce108 quotes“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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