Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)

He had 12 brothers and sisters, and their rather eccentric father had given them all names that started with the letter "A". In order of birth, the Bierce siblings were: Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert, Ambrose, Arthur, Adelia and Aurelia.

[From his 1906 "Cynic's Word Book," later retitled "The Devil's Dictionary"] Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.