Ambrose Bierce Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press
topic: War, Self Esteem, Swim, Bladder, Puncture
