Quote

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Ambrose Bierce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Part
Contemplate
Contemplating
Adversity
Privilege
Friendship
Friend

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Image
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
When you doubt, abstain.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
TRUCE, n. Friendship.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber they fertilize.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
Ambrose Bierce