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
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice."

R
"TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate."
A
"SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven."
N
"SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones."
K
"SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect."


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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