Creative Quotations from . . .
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914) born on Jun 24
US "journalist, short-story writer". "He was a noted wit, satirist and sardonic short story writer who disappeared while covering the Mexican revolution."
 
   
F
AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue."

R
"BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given."
A
"ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? #
Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT,
And said it was a god's name! . . .""
N
"BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
K
"ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
R: "The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
A: "The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
N: "The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."
K: "The Devil's Dictionary, 1911."



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