What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire Feraz Zeid, June 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Fool, Wise, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Bird, Hand, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Adoration, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Boxes, Democracy, Government, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Battle, Political, Yield, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling. Explain Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 14, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Camels, Christian, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Food, Wise, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Evil, Fortitude, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
The art of achievement is the art of making life – your life – a masterpiece. - Wilferd Peterson Author · USA
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. - Jean Tirole
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Love … Just Nature’s way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
