The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. – Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. – Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce
Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. – Ambrose Bierce
Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. – Elizabeth Gilbert