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
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.