Ambrose Bierce – “Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.…”
Ambrose Bierce best Famous Quotes – “Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.”
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Ambrose Bierce – “Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who spea…”
Ambrose Bierce best Faith Quotes – “Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse fo…”
Ambrose Bierce best Failure Quotes – “Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.”
Ambrose Bierce – “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in …”
Ambrose Bierce best Failure Quotes – “A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an und…”
Ambrose Bierce best Experience Quotes – “Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises …”
Ambrose Bierce best Education Quotes – “Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious…”
Ambrose Bierce best Education Quotes – “Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the es…”
Ambrose Bierce best Death Quotes – “Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the pl…”
Ambrose Bierce best Chance Quotes – “Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without …”
Ambrose Bierce best Business Quotes – “Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce – “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upo…”
Ambrose Bierce best Business Quotes – “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
Ambrose Bierce – “The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give t…”
Ambrose Bierce best Best Quotes – “The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terri…”
Ambrose Bierce best Beauty Quotes – “Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce – “We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not c…”
Ambrose Bierce best Attitude Quotes – “We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
Ambrose Bierce – “Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance …”
Ambrose Bierce best Art Quotes – “Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”