To be positive is to be mistaken at the... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Man

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

- Ambrose Bierce

Spring Trees

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

- Ambrose Bierce

Heaven Pretty World

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

- Ambrose Bierce

Conscience God

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

- Ambrose Bierce

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

- Ambrose Bierce

Talking Thinking

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

- Ambrose Bierce

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