Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it. Ambrose Bierce More Quotes by Ambrose Bierce More Quotes From Ambrose Bierce Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Ambrose Bierce literature dog world 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. Ambrose Bierce sadness lying people CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. Ambrose Bierce future time men In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. Ambrose Bierce heart integrity funny Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. Ambrose Bierce sarcastic nature beach diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. Ambrose Bierce sarcastic country art DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. Ambrose Bierce discrimination notes persons PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. Ambrose Bierce photography work art Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce humor prayer funny A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Ambrose Bierce abstention inactivity affair MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. Ambrose Bierce horse wife society Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce four twenties time The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. Ambrose Bierce marriage ill world Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce quotations Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce connections enthusiasm reality Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. Ambrose Bierce decay spiritual life A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition. Ambrose Bierce dog mean world The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce wisdom clever lying Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. Ambrose Bierce color white art Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce political-revolution cynical democracy
