Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his i

Summary

This quote suggests that humor in America often lacks the quick and clever wit found in other forms of humor. The American humorist is likened to a cook who forgets to add salt to his dish, as wit is considered an essential ingredient in creating intellectually stimulating humor. By leaving out wit, American humor falls short and fails to reach its full potential.

By Ambrose Bierce

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Morals

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Problems

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Excellence

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman

When the things you love exist only inside your memory they

When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.

Marina Tavares Dias

Happiness Love Life Lessons Memories Life And Living

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Architecture

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. H

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

True Love

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship mo

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

Lawrence Kasdan

Movies

That which is true must always remain true, though the appli

That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.

John Andreas Widtsoe

Truth Religion

The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the

The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

Fiction

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is on

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

Happiness Beauty Love Religion Sex Inspiration Connection

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's Go

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

Peace