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Your Quotes for 24 June 2006 - Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born at Horse Cave Creek, Ohio on this day in 1842. He joined the Union army in 1862, rising from first lieutenant to brevet major by the time he left the army in San Francisco in 1867 at which point he took up journalism. He was a deft satirist, which earned him the name Bitter Bierce, his precise spare use of the language is a delight to quote collectors. One part of the Bierce corpus that I won't dip into this time was the Devil's Dictionary, a feature of his newspaper column between 1881 and 1906 and then published in book form. He disappeared into Mexico in 1913 with the intention of joining Pancho Villa's revolutionaries.

A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen.

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

These are the prerogatives of genius: to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships, and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
     - All from Ambrose Bierce

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