Zitate von Ambrose Bierce
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Beweis: eine Aussage, die einen Grad glaubwürdiger ist als die Unwahrheit.
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 181 Jahre, 10 Monate, 3 Tage oder 66.417 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.