The hardest tumble a man can take is to... by Ambrose Bierce | We Heart Quotes

Writer journalist satirist Civil War An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

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

- Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Fortune Truth

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

- Ambrose Bierce

American

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

- Ambrose Bierce

Failure Crime

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

- Ambrose Bierce

Machine

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

- Ambrose Bierce

Debt

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

- Ambrose Bierce

Man

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

- Ambrose Bierce

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