Showing posts with label The Devil's Dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Devil's Dictionary. Show all posts

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