Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

Writer journalist Fortune satirist Civil War

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

American

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

- Ambrose Bierce

Life

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Ambrose Bierce

Man

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

- Ambrose Bierce

A lawyer is the larval stage of a politician.

- Ambrose Bierce

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

- Ambrose Bierce

Money

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

- Ambrose Bierce

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