Author of quotes: Ambrose Bierce



Absolute - independent, unaccountable. In an absolute monarchy, for example, the sovereign does whatever he wants until he is killed. There are not many absolute monarchies left; most of them gave way to limited monarchies, where the evil (or good) done by sovereigns is fairly veiled, and also to republics that are governed by chance.
№ 419082   Added MegaMozg 15-05-2021 / 08:30
Stubborn - denying our truths, although they are clearly in the glare of his own, and rejecting all our arguments.
A well-known example and sample of stubbornness, a mule, a reasonable of the animals.
№ 399172   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 12:24
Sure - erring in full voice.
№ 399171   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 12:21
Haste - the speed of incompetents.
№ 399170   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 12:18
Prison is a place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that "stone walls do not prison", but the combination of stone walls, political appointees and moralists-nravouchiteley - not a house-gingerbread.
№ 399169   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 12:15
A litigant in litigation - a person willing to give up his skin to save some bones.
№ 399168   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 12:12
Litigation is a machine you enter a pig and come out sausage.
№ 399163   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:57
A rebellion is a failed revolution. Failed attempt to replace a bad government others in the same.
№ 399162   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:54
Dance - jumping with merry music, most often in the arms of the wife or daughter of his neighbor. There's a lot of dancing, but those employing the knight and the lady, have two features: they deliberately chaste, but for some reason they really love the Libertines.
№ 399161   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:51
Day - the length of time length of twenty-four hours, usually in vain. Consists of day and night, and the day is usually dedicated to business and the rest of the sins. However, these social activities often coincide.
№ 399160   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:48
Passion is a quality that is characterized by love without knowledge.
№ 399159   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:45
Suffering is an unpleasant state of mind, the cause of which may be physical - any disease, for example, and purely spiritual - when it carries to someone else.
№ 399158   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:42
Old age - that part of our life, when we are tolerant of those sins for which we have enough forces, and denounce those who are no longer able.
№ 399157   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:39
The dispute is the best way to opponents in their delusions.
№ 399156   Added MegaMozg 26-06-2020 / 11:36
Libertine - one who is so serious about chasing pleasure, that in the end, himself as head reaches it.
№ 399047   Added MegaMozg 24-06-2020 / 20:09