1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 701. OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yello ...
- 702. OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
- 703. ONCE, adv. Enough.
- 704. OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no m ...
- 705. OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
- 706. Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
- 707. OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing ...
- 708. OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everythi ...
- 709. Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
- 710. OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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- 711. ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by ...
- 712. ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation ...
- 713. ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
- 714. ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than ...
- 715. OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in whi ...
- 716. OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect ta ...
- 717. OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an excepti ...
- 718. OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy.
- 719. OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable t ...
- 720. OVEREAT, v. To dine.
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