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
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.