Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Time Quotes, Lying Quotes

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

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There will be time to murder and create.

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I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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The surest poison is time.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

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Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

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