1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 801. Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- 802. Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
- 803. Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affai ...
- 804. POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as ...
- 805. POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone under ...
- 806. PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
His light estat ...
- 807. PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and im ...
- 808. POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the A ...
- 809. POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, t ...
- 810. POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its aboliti ...
- 811. Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confesse ...
- 812. Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly un ...
- 813. Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a single petitioner, admittedly ...
- 814. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and ...
- 815. PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
- 816. PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite stat ...
- 817. PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial.
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- 818. PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should n ...
- 819. PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency.
- 820. PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
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