Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Ambrose Bierce:
Das Alter ist jene Lebensperiode, in der wir die Sünden, die wir noch begehen, dadurch wettmachen, daß wir jene verabscheuen, die zu begehen wir nicht mehr imstande sind.
Informationen über Ambrose Bierce
Schriftsteller, "The Dance of Death/Der Totentanz"/1877, "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians"/1891, "The Devil's Dictionary/Aus dem Wörterbuch des Teufels"/1911, "In the Midst of Life/Physiognomien des Todes" (USA, 1842 - 1914).
Ambrose Bierce · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Ambrose Bierce wäre heute 182 Jahre, 2 Monate, 28 Tage oder 66.564 Tage alt.
Geboren am 24.06.1842 in Horse Cave Creek/Ohio
Gestorben am 11.01.1914 in Mexiko (verschollen)
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Weitere 502 Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply into each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Aphorism: Predigested wisdom.
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Applause is the echo of a platitude.
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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
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Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Aristocrats: Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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auctioneer, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
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battle, n. A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Brain - an apparatus with which we think that we think.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of exisiting evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes too replace them with others.
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Controversy - A battle in which spittle or ink replace the . . . cannon ball.
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Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit whitout individual responsibility.