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Here's to woman! Would that we...

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Patriotism, n. Combustible rub...

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

Inhumanity, n. One of the sign...

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now ...

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition...

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Pantheism, n.
The doctri...

Pantheism, n.
The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Phoenix, n.
The classica...

Phoenix, n.
The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Dictionary: a malevolent liter...

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

In this world one must have a ...

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an ...

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

You can effect a change of rob...

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Age - That period of life in w...

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 1281 quotes

Christian - One who follows th...

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Conversation: A fair for the d...

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Scriptures - The sacred books ...

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Riot Ђ' A popular entertainmen...

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

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Lawyer Ђ' One skilled in the c...

Lawyer Ђ' One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Twice Ђ' Once too often....

Twice Ђ' Once too often.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for s...

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who hold...

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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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....