1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 1. A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
- 2. A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
- 3. A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
- 4. A man is known by the company he organizes.
- 5. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms ...
- 6. A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
- 7. ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly ...
- 8. ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish ins ...
- 9. ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne. P ...
- 10. ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men e ...
- 11. ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishi ...
- 12. ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is t ...
- 13. Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They ...
- 14. ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They ...
- 15. ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the s ...
- 16. Abscond. To "move" in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- 17. ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does a ...
- 18. ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abst ...
- 19. Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- 20. Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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