What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Delusional, Insanity, Philosopher, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Art, Photography, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Doctors, Humorous, Medicine, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Beauty, Husband, Power, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Beach, Nature, Sarcastic, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Editors, Light, Writing, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Patience, Sarcastic, Virtue, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Age, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. Explain - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
