Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good for

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Cynicism
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
History
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Insurance
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Jealousy
category

I think its important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. – Heidi Klum

Category:
Jealousy

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. – Chris ODowd

Category:
Jealousy

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

Category:
Jealousy

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Category:
Jealousy

Random Quotes

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. – Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

Category:
Sympathy

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

Category:
Cancer Support

Success is the child of audacity. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Success

I think its realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: I despair. The worlds no good. Thats a perverse idealist. Its practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. Thats very realistic. – Studs Terkel

Category:
Hope