What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Backbite: To ”speak of a man as you find him” when he can’t find you. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 13, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Disappointment, Grasping, Opportunity, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Influence, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Ears, Eye, Science, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Appreciate, Love, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Leaving, Spring, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Destiny, Failure, Tyrants, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Clouds, Sarcastic, Silver, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Take not God’s name in vain; select a time when it will have effect. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Funny, God, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. - Jean-Marie Le Pen Politician · France
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment. - Jean-Pierre de Caussade Priest · France
I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I’m free… to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t. I can. And my children will. - Jefferson Smith Historian · USA
