Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
Interpretation
Prepare your personal matters before facing a significant challenge or change.
This quote by Ambrose Bierce emphasizes the importance of having one's personal affairs in order before facing a potentially life-altering event, such as surgery. It suggests that being organized and prepared can provide peace of mind and may even contribute to a more favorable outcome in the face of uncertainty.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a blog post about preparing for major life changes.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.
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