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Lottery: A tax on people who ...

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Patriotism, n. Combustible ru...

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Conversation, n.: A vocal com...

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon o...

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed...

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle p...

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

WAR, n. A by-product of the a...

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

optimism, n. The doctrine, or...

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

A wedding is a ceremony at wh...

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Speak when you are angry and ...

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Logic, n. The art of thinking...

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

MIND, n. A mysterious form of...

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Riot – A popular entertainmen...

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Contempt; the feeling of a pr...

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Edible - good to eat and whol...

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Absurdity, n.: A statement or...

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Liberty: One of Imagination's...

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

What is a democrat? One who b...

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

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Anoint, v.: To grease a king ...

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

We submit to the majority bec...

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....