Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce
Good writing is essentially clear thinking made visible. - Ambrose Bierce
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce
Genealogy: An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. - Ambrose Bierce
Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. (1842-?1914 - American journalist and writer) - Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart. - Ambrose Bierce
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"