Ambrose Bierce Part 1
“Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary