"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
― Ambrose Bierce
Topic(s): Happiness
― Ambrose Bierce
More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
- "Eloquence, n. 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."
- "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
More In Happiness
- "Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."― John Ruskin
- "Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."― John Grierson
- "The older I get, the more I see that there really aren’t huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground."― Paula Cole