What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Analysis, Philosophy, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Author, April 29, 2023December 25, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Communication, Emotion, Regret, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Comparison, Humility, Perception, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Punishment, Sin, Time, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Enforcement, Law, Respect, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation. Author, September 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Creation, Existence, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Conscience, Demand, Value, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Impulse, Purpose, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
