Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce
Woman absent is woman dead. – Ambrose Bierce
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. – Ambrose Bierce
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen