Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that a bride's future happiness is often linked to her past experiences rather than her current situation.
Ambrose Bierce's quote plays on the idea that a bride enters marriage with hope for a joyful future, yet the term 'happiness behind her' implies that the real joys may have occurred in her past. This irony highlights the complexities of marital expectations and the humor in the pursuit of personal happiness.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a wedding toast to highlight the humorous expectations of marriage.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
βGod,β she cried, βwhat is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.β
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
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