Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Time

• An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Truth, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

• Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Twenties, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.603, Library of America

• CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Future, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

• UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Power, Ubiquity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

• OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Book, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.87, Courier Corporation

• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Punishment, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

• EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Power, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

• PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.170, 谷月社

• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Mind, Belief

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, Courier Corporation

• DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Punishment

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

• 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

• Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Lying, Childhood

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