What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ He laughs best who laughs least. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Laughing, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Book, Perfect, Writing, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Experience, Observation, Reflection, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Teach, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Gossip, Secret, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Ambassadors, Country, Exile, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Funny, Love, Marriage, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Dog, Funny, Humor, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. - William Osler Physician · Canada
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. - William Osler Physician · Canada
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. - William Osler Physician · Canada
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization - Franz Boas Anthropologist · Germany
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease–a genuine, absolute disease. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
