1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 301. Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward ap ...
- 302. ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gow ...
- 303. ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
- 304. EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is ...
- 305. EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be ...
- 306. EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity ...
- 307. EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effe ...
- 308. ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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- 309. Erudition: dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
- 310. ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of ...
- 311. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, ...
- 312. EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose amon ...
- 313. EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideratio ...
- 314. Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration t ...
- 315. Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration t ...
- 316. EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of ou ...
- 317. EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief ...
- 318. Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end ...
- 319. EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest ...
- 320. EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
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