To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCETo the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCEThey say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
AMBROSE BIERCELife – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCEAge, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
AMBROSE BIERCEPhilosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
AMBROSE BIERCEIMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
AMBROSE BIERCESweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCEPITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
AMBROSE BIERCEHe who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
AMBROSE BIERCEScriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
AMBROSE BIERCEKnowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCEDebt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
AMBROSE BIERCEAmbition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
AMBROSE BIERCEI think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
AMBROSE BIERCEMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
AMBROSE BIERCEA wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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