To the eye of failure success is an accident.
AMBROSE BIERCEElectricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.
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