Love, Ambrose Bierce

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914)

사랑: 일시적인 정신병, 결혼에 의해 치유될 수 있음.

- 앰브로즈 비어스 (Ambrose Bierce)

Neighbor, Ambrose Bierce

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Love, Ambrose Bierce

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Ardor, Ambrose Bierce

ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911