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.
AMBROSE BIERCELottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
More Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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