Quote

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

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
Matter
Mind
Think
Thinking
Secreted
Apparatus
Mysterious
Brain
Form

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Image
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
Ambrose Bierce
Image
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
Image
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen
Ambrose Bierce
Image
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce