Logo
Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Anger
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote

Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Politics
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Fear
category

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. – Natan Sharansky

Category:
Fear

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna

Category:
Fear

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. – Paul Sweeney

Category:
Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. – Publilius Syrus

Category:
Fear

Random Quotes

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me. – Mitch Hedberg

Category:
funny

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. – Kathie Lee Gifford

Category:
Politics

In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Perspective

I always see where I didnt do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. Thats a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that. – Vera Wang

Category:
Wisdom