Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Biercewas an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters", and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1842
CityMeighs County, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
When you doubt, abstain.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.