What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ Amnesty, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Amnesty, Punishment, 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
+ Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Blessing, Money, Wealth, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Business, Money, Sarcastic, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Asking, Work, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Humorous, Insane, Profound, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Characteristics, Human, Quality, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Fear, Inward, Spiritual Life, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Death is the next step after the pension-it’s perpetual retirement without pay. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
