In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
AMBROSE BIERCELife – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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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 his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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