Ambrose Bierce
Related AMBROSE BIERCE AMBROSE BIERCE AMBROSE BIERCE Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE EMILY DICKINSON PAUL AUSTER J.J. MCAVOY MARKUS ZUSAK I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. TOM SIZEMORE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS PAULO COELHO He was coming up on the right side and I think he bumped into one of his own guys and the ball came ... ANTHONY MAESTRANZI NORA ROBERTS VICTOR HUGO VICTOR HUGO He shot into the air because he was a very religious man, and he knew if he took his own life he wou... SANDRA ANGLE COLTON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE RALPH WALDO EMERSON RALPH WALDO EMERSON He thought for a minute and said, 'Now I have eight pitches.' He knew that intuitively. He figured t... BRUCE HURST HENRY WARD BEECHER H. P. LOVECRAFT YOKO ONO ISRAELMORE AYIVOR LANCE ARMSTRONG STANLEY KUBRICK TERTULLIAN Man is a breathing DUST, while woman is a breathing BONE SOTONYE ANGA He didn't really sustain any injuries in the accident. I think he was just shaken up. JAVIER AGUILAR MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH GEORGE CRABBE VICTOR HUGO [Williams only had two assists but played markedly better after an eight-minute, three-foul stint ag... JERRY SLOAN NICHOLAS SPARKS JOHN MILTON We knew Matt was a talent when he came into the program and that it was only a matter of time before... GEORGE DYCHE NICHOLAS SPARKS SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE WILLIAM TEMPLE EDWARD DAHLBERG STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor’s son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like... JANE YOLEN Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travel... DEAN INGE What a remarkable man he is and he really deserves to be a head coach in his own right, MIKE MARTZ We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY MILTON BERLE MURRAY N. ROTHBARD I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving ... GIOVANNI PAPINI AMBROSE BIERCE He had a deep gash. His head was really swollen because of the trauma from the accident. Other than ... SALLY BOLON HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief PROVERB He didn't shine the way he wanted to last year (at Eugene). But he came into this season with a plan... RANDY READY He didn't shine the way he wanted to last year (at Eugene). But he came into this season with a plan... RANDY READY SUNDAY ADELAJA A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD PLATO WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE I thought he was fantastic today. He glides by people as if they are not there, his first touch was ... ERIC BLACK JOHANN G. SEUME These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out. MAHMOUD ALINEJAD OSCAR WILDE I can't remember a freshman I've coached that has stepped on the field as a freshman and played how ... CHARLIE WILLIAMS JOSH BILLINGS J.R. WARD TIORIO Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl... LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY CRAIG GROESCHEL What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to... DAVID HERBERT DONALD EDWIN MARKHAM Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif... VIKTOR FRANKL NORA ROBERTS VIKTOR E. FRANKL We came out a little bit flat. Our serving was kind of poor I thought. It was right around 80 percen... GREG MURLEY SASKYA PANDITA His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of... J.M. COETZEE COCO J. GINGER C.S. LEWIS BENJAMIN HARRISON The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he coul... JOE FERRER PHILIP JAMES BAILEY PHILIP JAMES BAILEY JOSEPH CONRAD Illusion"ASPER BLURRY I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was,... ELENA FERRANTE CHARLES DICKENS Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. MICHAEL LEWIS He hit it with a hammer, and a sliver of metal came and hit him in the right eye. He had a pretty mi... BILL BECKER Skip appreciates his roots. He was a kid who came out of an orphanage in Mars. He came to Oakmont an... CHUCK WAGNER Skip appreciates his roots, ... He was a kid who came out of an orphanage in Mars. He came to Oakmon... CHUCK WAGNER Right now he has real good command of his form and technique. He came out of basketball very strong,... DAVE SELLON NICHOLAS SPARKS When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th... BILL GRANGER
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ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t... 
He learned how to look at himself from a distance, to see himself first of all as a man among other ... 
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ... 
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the... 
He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu... 
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. 
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many thin... 
The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm... 
The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command... 
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma... 
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ... 
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ... 
Before your mother's conception of you, God knew you; before His consecration of you, He had up s... 
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, ma... 
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. 
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. 
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be... 
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide. 
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would... 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. 
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. 
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters s... 
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Wh... 
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must... 
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing ... 
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. 
People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to v... 
The measure of a man is what he does with power. 
They say that man is mighty, 
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. 
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. 
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. 
How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly. 
Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; ... 
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ... 
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of con... 
He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu... 
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to lif... 
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ... 
He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one u... 
Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere... 
The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h... 
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each... 
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement.... 
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... 
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.