What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ TRUCE, n. Friendship. Feraz Zeid, July 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Friendship, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Clever, Lying, Wisdom, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Cooking, Feelings, Food, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Denial, Indulgence, Self, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Affliction, Soul, 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
+ 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
+ MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Heart, Soul, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. - George Ellwanger
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
