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Ambrose Bierce

American Journalist

Born: Jun 24, 1842

Died: 1914

About Adjective His Man Person Politics

Related authors: Charles Krauthammer Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

Doubt is the father of invention. Ambrose Bierce

Father Invention Doubt

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. Ambrose Bierce

Country Ruin Ruined Would Democrat Democrats Republican Republicans Who Believes

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

Art Picture Sun Photograph Instruction Without Painted

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce

Art Strict Thinking Logic Limitations Misunderstanding Accordance Human Reasoning

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

Kinds Praiseworthy Homicide Four

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Ambrose Bierce

Philosopher Analyze He Delusions His Who Lunatics

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy Most Acceptable Politeness

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

Business Responsibility Profit Corporation Individual Individual Responsibility Device Obtaining Without Ingenious

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce

Mom Mother Feeling Worn Child Chilly Sweater Garment

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

Coward Emergency Perilous His Legs Who Thinks

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce

Dead Edited Saint Sinner Revised

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce

Politics Thieves Other Inserted Plunder Pockets Alliance Hands Cannot Separately Union Who International Each Deeply Two Third

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

Patience Revenge Worth Meekness Uncommon While Planning

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce

You Machine Out Come Pig Go Which Litigation Sausage

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism Rubbish Torch Name Ready His Ambitious Any Illuminate

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce

Pleasure Weak Temptation Himself Denying Yields Person Who

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce

Art Weather Painting Critic Protecting Flat Them Exposing

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce

Single Universe Laws Unworthy Pray Behalf Ask

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce

Virtue Those About Betrayed Fidelity Who Peculiar

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. Ambrose Bierce

Nothing Philosophy Roads Leading Many Nowhere Route

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce

Man Fall Own Over Make His Tumble Bluff Hardest

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