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
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.