Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Planning: worrying about finding the best method to achieve an accidental result.

In international affairs, peace is a period of traps between two struggles.

The voter enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for a candidate chosen by others.

Doubt is the mother of discovery.

There is nothing new under the sun, but how many old things there are that we do not know.

Quoting is a way of repeating another person's words erroneously.

War is a method of untying with the teeth a political knot that cannot be undone with the tongue.

Autoevidente: evidente para uno mismo, pero no para los demás

No take the name of God in vain; choose the moment when it takes effect.

A man is like a tree: In a forest of his peers, he will grow as straight as his individual and generic nature allows; only in open fields, he succumbs to the deforming tensions and twists that surround him.

The future is that period of time in which our businesses thrive, our friends are true, and our happiness is secure.

Teetotaler: A weak person who falls into the temptation of denying themselves a pleasure.