If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too muc…

Ambrose Bierce
646 citations
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2015). A Cynic Looks at Life, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing
Life
12

More Author Quotes

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentle … ▶
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous … ▶
Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of th … ▶
Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.48, 谷月社
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is … ▶

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2015). A Cynic Looks at Life, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes