Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
AMBROSE BIERCELAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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