Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Ambrose Bierce:
Gewohnheiten sind die Fesseln des freien Menschen.
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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Coward - One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Diary: A daily record of that part of one's life which he can relate to himself without blushing.
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Diplomacy: the patriotic art of lying for your country.
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Distance - the only thing the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
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Edible: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Egoist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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Egoist: A man of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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Future: that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
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Genealogy: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Ghost: the outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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history, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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History: An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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Hope: Desire and expectation rolled into one.