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.
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,_x000D_ Will you still care? Will you be there?_x000D_ In my trials and my tribulations,_x000D_ Through our doubts and frustrations,_x000D_ In my violence and my turbulence,_x000D_ Through my fear and my confessions,_x000D_ And my anguish and my pain,_x000D_ Through my joy and my sorrow,_x000D_ In the promise of another tomorrow,_x000D_ I'll never let you part,_x000D_ For you're always in my heart.
When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
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