The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes – We submit to the majority because we have to..
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Ardor..
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Famous..
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – History is an account..
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure..
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest..
Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself..
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 Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age..
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Quotes – Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage..
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce