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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1842 - 1914

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Life Age Childhood Youth Sin Three

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Jerry Lewis

Day Yourself World Laugh You Look

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Andres Segovia

Work Building Stand Down Place Up

I really prize and love great painting.

John Lithgow

Love Great Painting Prize Really

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

Science Great Me Book Reading Said

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

Anna Deavere Smith

People Now Write Right Even Many

I have always hated fancy dress parties.

Mary Beard

Dress Always Fancy Hated Parties

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

Michael Rooker

Down Horror Okay Need Little Fans

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You Look Choice Security Policy

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Jean de la Bruyere

God Myself Me Find Prove Existence

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Jonathan Franzen

Me Writing You Need Real Pleasure

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

Don Mattingly

Game Say Worst Like Our

I don't have an issue with marrying an actor, though it's definitely tough. I work with actors and interact with star wives, and I don't know how they do it. Loyalty is a very important factor for me, and I need to be in a relationship where the person will complete me and fill me up.

Deepika Padukone

Work Relationship Loyalty Me Tough