What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Persons, Wish, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Capacity, Emulation, Envy, 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
+ 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
+ Truth – An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Appearance, Funny, Truth, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, 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
+ ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Demand, Diplomacy, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. - Jefferson Machamer
Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever. - Jennifer E. Smith Author
