1230 ordspråk av Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce föddes den July 24th 1842 och dog den 11 January 1914 - US writer
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 The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog |
| The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. |
| The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. |
| The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. |
| The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. |
| The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man. |
| The wife, or bitter half |
| The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. |
| THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. |
| THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good --that is perfection; and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat. |
| There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. |
| There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know |
| They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. |
| Think twice before you speak to a friend in need |
| TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of _renaissances_, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage. |
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