You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
– Ambrose Bierce
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- The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
- Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser. – Stephen Richards
- Anyone who is forgetting to love is growing older. Anyone who is learning to fly with the wings of love are growing younger. – Debasish Mridha
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything. – Christina L Barr
- Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition – Baruch Spinoza
- I don’t have a problem with a world full of vampires and zombies but with one where the law forbids me from shooting them. – Daniel Marques
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. – Anatole France
- A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,-”the light which, showing the way, forbids it. – Kate Chopin
- To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
- Reflect, reflect. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Reflect who you truly are even when people try to tempt you to reflect the wrong image of yourself. – Cyc Jouzy
- Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy. – Billy Graham
- It’s not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius. – Debasish Mridha
- Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger. – Karon Waddell
- Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Each new day, our minds grow older; the mediocre, bitter or better daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. – Dean Koontz