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
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.