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
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.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.