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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Future Happiness Time Friends True

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Battle Political Tongue Teeth Knot

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Man Wise Head Cabbage Vegetable

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Intelligence Government Civilization

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Brain Think Which Apparatus

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Lie People Proud Die Cry Right

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Failure Fool Destiny Authority Crime

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Change Man Better Feel Him Always

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love Marriage Insanity Temporary

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

God World Days Weekly Origin Made

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience Virtue Form Minor Disguised

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

You Pig Go Out Sausage Come

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