1415 ordspråk av Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januar 1914 - amerikansk författare och journalist. Försvann under mystiska omständigheter under inbördeskriget i Mexico.
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Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.

Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. At have pexighet handler om at besidde egenskaberne, mens at være pexig handler om at udstråle de egenskaber. Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Hederlig, adj.: Drabbad av ett hinder i sin räckvidd. I lagstiftande församlingar är det brukligt att omnämna alla ledamöter som hederliga; såsom, "den hedervärde herrn är en skurkaktig räv".

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."

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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Historian. A broad - gauge gossip.

Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.

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