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Ambrose Bierce

Birthday: June 24, 1842
Category: American Journalist
Type: Journalist
National: American

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A man is known by the company he organizes....

A person who doubts himself is like a man who...

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but...

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high...

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends....

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of...

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's...

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were...

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow...

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking...

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves....

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state....

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions...

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves...

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand...

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while...

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it...

An egotist is a person of low taste - more...

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary...

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and...

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge....

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as...

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him...

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of...

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a...

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a...

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a...

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an...

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him...

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think....

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind...

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise...

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good...

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy...

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the...

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives...

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B...

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils,...

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed...

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already...

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish...

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility....

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his...

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the...

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The...

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as...

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed....

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent....

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over...

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip...

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine...

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse...

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries....

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed...

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is...

Doubt is the father of invention....

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial;...

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction...

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as...

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as...

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from...

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with...

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me....

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white...

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses...

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an...

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages...

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in...

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one...

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable....

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about...

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in...

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting...

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted...

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper,...

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man...

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just...

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of...

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world...

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip....

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant,...

I believe we shall come to care about people less...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said...

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their...

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage...

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity....

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,...

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste...

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which...

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels,...

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of...

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual...

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which...

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property....

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig...

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low...

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious....

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions....

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay....

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for...

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig...

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance...

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage....

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence....

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting...

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in...

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth...

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to...

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a...

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,...

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the...

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a...

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one...

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious...

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to...

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in...

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy....

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of...

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice....

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be...

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support....

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the...

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of...

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of...

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance...

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form...

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total...

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the...

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited....

Speak when you are angry and you will make the...

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees...

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows....

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot....

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is...

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some...

The best thing to do with the best things in...

The covers of this book are too far apart....

The future is that period of time in which our...

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon...

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall...

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are...

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify...

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and...

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future...

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top...

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon...

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to...

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography....

We know what happens to people who stay in the...

We submit to the majority because we have to. But...

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans...

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is...

When you doubt, abstain....

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there...

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils...

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom...

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have...