What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor’s uneasiness. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Comfort, Mind, Neighbor, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Feraz Zeid, June 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Knowledge, Love, Quality, 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
+ EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Fool, Friendship, Method, 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
+ Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Death, Dying, Virtue, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Adversity, Friendship, Privilege, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ repose, v.i. To cease from troubling. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Cease, Repose, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. - Ludwig Bemelmans Illustrator · Austria
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot Author · England
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. - Jean-Paul Aron
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
