Inspirational Ambrose Bierce Quotes On Success

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Edible, adj.: 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.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

When you doubt, abstain.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Eloquence:The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Language: The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Heathen: A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be