1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 381. GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and ...
- 382. GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and ...
- 383. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and ...
- 384. GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of le ...
- 385. GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are pene ...
- 386. GORGON, n.
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- 387. GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.
- 388. GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, servin ...
- 389. GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the ...
- 390. GRAPE, n.
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- 391. GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Sociali ...
- 392. GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
Beside a ...
- 393. GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the ...
- 394. GREAT, adj.
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- 395. GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
In his great ...
- 396. GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might bec ...
- 397. HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
- 398. Habit is a shackle for the free.
- 399. HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live.
Among ...
- 400. HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old w ...
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