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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: bluffer, fall over, tumble, tumbling
«ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adj, detraction, detractions, illustrious, malice, shafting, shafts, suitably
«JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: joss, rites, tomfoolery
«ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: dunces, ethnology, idiots, robbers, thieves, treats, tribes
«EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: accompanied, chloride, copious, discharge, heart disease, hydrated, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sodium
«GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: gout, physician, rheumatism
«When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: haste, recover
«PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: Army of, corporal, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, pleonasm
«WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cookery, humorist, spoils
«A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | About: Relationships | Keywords: attainments, disk, medal, metal, services
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