Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–1913) was 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”.
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
—Ambrose Bierce
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
—Ambrose Bierce
Topics: Patience
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
—Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce
Topics: Jealousy
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
—Ambrose Bierce
Topics: Honesty
A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
—Ambrose Bierce
A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
—Ambrose Bierce
Faith, and belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
—Ambrose Bierce
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