1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 761. PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than t ...
- 762. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- 763. PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and expl ...
- 764. Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
- 765. PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
- 766. PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences ...
- 767. PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys ...
- 768. PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and c ...
- 769. PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
"Behold great Dau ...
- 770. PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 771. PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.
The pig is ...
- 772. PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity ...
- 773. PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, bu ...
- 774. PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 ...
- 775. PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newsp ...
- 776. PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
- 777. PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
- 778. PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
- 779. PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subseq ...
- 780. PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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