What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Death, Feet, Graves, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors – to dislodge the worms. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Culture, Fruit, 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
+ Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Buckets, Fountain, Pool, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Hypocrisy, Hypocrite, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Boundaries, Divorce, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man’s burden. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, White Man, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Brain, Fear, Idiot, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn’t there in the score. - Michael Tippett Composer · England
Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison. - Jeffrey Archer Author · England
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. - Jeremy Paxman Journalist · United Kingdom
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight. - Jerome Lawrence Playwright · USA
This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade. - Jerry Falwell
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It’s what we have because we can’t have justice. - William McIlvanney Author · Scotland
