Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Age

• YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Past, Yesterday, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

• BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Sex, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Drinking, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

• Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Fall, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

• Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Birthday, Errors, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

• Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eye, Thinking, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

• A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Age, Nervous

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.842, Library of America

• Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Children, Maturity, Age

• Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Age, Looks, Youth

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

• He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Believe, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

• Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Happiness, Dream, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

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