Ambrose Bierce Quotes
A man is known by the company he organizes. 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. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. 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. Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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