1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 601. MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word ha ...
- 602. MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high pu ...
- 603. MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.
- 604. MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condense ...
- 605. MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustome ...
- 606. MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everythi ...
- 607. MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
- 608. MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to cr ...
- 609. MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand M ...
- 610. MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
- 611. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting ...
- 612. MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young ...
- 613. MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York ...
- 614. MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he ...
- 615. MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort unti ...
- 616. MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good ...
- 617. MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer suppl ...
- 618. Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slave ...
- 619. Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, m ...
- 620. Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, ...
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