1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 241. DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
- 242. DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
- 243. DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing ...
- 244. DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy ...
- 245. DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard ...
- 246. DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Ne ...
- 247. DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evol ...
- 248. DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
- 249. Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
- 250. Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
- 251. DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee ...
- 252. DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more object ...
- 253. DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
- 254. DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
His right to g ...
- 255. DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character
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- 256. DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
- 257. DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-b ...
- 258. Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
- 259. DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the w ...
- 260. Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the worl ...
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