Don't despair, @gemlog; in many ways the world is a better place than when you and I were born. And even the housing situation in Canada may improve, now that certain politicians are making it a key issue. #ClimateChange is serious, to be sure, but we live in one of the countries of the world in which its consequences will be the least dire.

I'm fond of #AmbroseBierce's definition of a #conservative, though it lacks policy content. "Liberal" in modern Canada means believing Ls should govern.

#Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage
#AmbroseBierce

Literarischer #24Juni

„Diplomatie, die: Die patriotische Kunst, für sein Vaterland zu lügen.“

#AmbroseBierce #DesTeufelsWörterbuch Geburt 1842

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else." — Ambrose Bierce — — — # #quote #quotes #AmbroseBierce #author #writing #genius #think #thinking

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

⬆ #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

⬆ #Quotes #AmbroseBierce #Prayer

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida

@sentient_water
A cover, but it’s such a great version. This is another one that takes me somewhere else- to “An Occurrence On Owl Creek Bridge”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hO1NY7Gtd0A

#AmbroseBierce #Stories #Music

Useless Quote for 14 Feb:

"In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination"

~ Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" entry for Romance (1917)

#UselessQuote #AmbroseBierce

Listening to his "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War" while working. Funny, absurd, sad. Bierce, fighting for the Union, took a head wound during the war that made him irritable and subject to collapse, which he mentions here.

#art #mastoart #ambrosebierce #civilwar #carcosa

Is it nitpicking to complain about not being able to find any #AmbroseBierce books instore at our "best" bookshops in Melbourne, "world literary capital and UNESCO City of Literature"? Sure they're "available to order", but sometimes you just want to scratch that book itch right away.

OK, so maybe Ambrose Bierce phase 1 (digital painting post-pencil sketch) is too sinister, but we're working on it.

#ambrosebierce #mastoart

@checkervest
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary#Sample_definitions

@Blakely

#AmbroseBierce

Ever been to a dim place where black stars rise in a sky overlooking the lake of Hali? If you never came back — and you never will, trust me — here's a postcard available at the local gift shop upon which you could write a final missive.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/55022786

#mastoart #art #artist #illustration #ambrosebierce #robertwchambers #lovecraft #carcosa #kinginyellow #horror #weirdfiction #FediGiftShop

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

#TheDevilsDictionary #AmbroseBierce #ClassicBooks #SatiricalDictionary #Lexicon #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

#TheDevilsDictionary #AmbroseBierce #ClassicBooks #SatiricalDictionary #Lexicon #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

> “God created war so that Americans would learn geography,” said Mark Twain...this quip began as a non-humorous comment about war and evolved into a satirical jibe. Early comical instances have no clear originator. The prevalent modern form of the joke that mentions God should be credited to #PaulRodriguez..The linkages to #AmbroseBierce and #MarkTwain are unsupported.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/19/geography/
I knew the quote was from way before #JonStewart but I guessed #DevilsDictionary

#Education: That which discloses to the wise & disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding
#AmbroseBierce

#Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others
#AmbroseBierce

@gemlog @bob
I'm partial to the #AmbroseBierce definition:

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

#conservatism

@hypolite I think #AmbroseBierce gets more to the heart of it:
"Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

#conservatism #politics