Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Ambrose Bierce:
Gerücht: Lieblingswaffe des Charaktermörders.
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)
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs
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Weitere 502 Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
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I think that I think; therefore, I think I am.
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Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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Justice: a commodity which in a more or less adultered condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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Knowledge - The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Laughter is an internal convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises.
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Lawyer, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Litigation - A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Loquacity: A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Marriage - a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.
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Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Money: A blessing that is of no advantage excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
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Moral: Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right; having the quaility of general expediency.
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Noise: a stench in the ear.
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Novel: a short story padded.
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Observatory: A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.