ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
Interpretation
Antipathy refers to the dislike or hostility one feels towards a friend's acquaintance.
In this quote, Ambrose Bierce cleverly captures the irony of human relationships, where individuals can harbor negative feelings towards someone purely based on their association with a close friend. This highlights the complexities of social dynamics and how friendship can influence our perceptions and emotions towards others, often without direct personal experiences to justify such feelings.
In practice
In a discussion about social groups, this quote can illustrate the complexities of human emotions.
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.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
All things are in common among friends.
When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.
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