{"id":3805,"date":"2016-05-13T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:55:11","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Ambrose_Bierce_114_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=3805","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Ambrose Bierce (114 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''<\/b><\/div>\n
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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Oceans<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Coward and Cowardice<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Cynics and Cynicism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Funerals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Perseverance<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man is known by the company he organizes.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Management<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Prejudice<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Philosophers and Philosophy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A temporary insanity curable by marriage.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Love<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Crime and Criminals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Abstinence<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Absurdity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Acquaintance<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Acquaintance<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Army and Navy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Praise<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Age and Aging<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Immigration<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Philosophers and Philosophy<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce – [Alliances<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 114<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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