• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Ambrose Bierce Quotes
  • Ambrose Bierce Quotes   976
  • optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Fall Quotes
  • REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes
  • Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Christian Quotes , Cheating Quotes