More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
- "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
- "Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
More In Positive
- "I don’t like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative."― Chloe Sevigny
- "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."― Raoul Vaneigem
- "I never appreciated ‘positive heroes’ in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more ‘productive’ literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."― Jose Saramago