Ambrose Bierce Famous Quotes
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
"Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
"Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."
"Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
"Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
"Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
"Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
The covers of this book are too far apart.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
"Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
Ambrose Bierce Quotations
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
Marquis de Sade
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
Wystan Hugh Auden
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
Mark Twain
"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is"
Alan B Watts
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael