More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
- "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
- "It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
More In Success
- "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."― Dale Turner
- "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"― James Allen
- "No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."― Napoleon Hill