Ambrose Bierce on faith
Ambrose Bierce108 quotes“Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”
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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.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce MYTHOLOGY, n. 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 BierceAmbrose Bierce Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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