Ambrose Bierce on business
Ambrose Bierce108 quotes“Don’t steal; thou’lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.”
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Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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