Ambrose Bierce
American author and journalist; b. 1842; d. 1913 · 29 aphorisms · no comments
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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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Comment# · Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
Comment# · Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Comment# · Fair (150 ratings) · submitted 1997
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
Law and Politics
Comment# · Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
Love and Hate
Comment# · Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
Comment# · Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
Love and Hate
Comment# · Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
Comment# · Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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