1103 Quotations with Character.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inh ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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- 80. Ambrose Bierce: SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; ins ...
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