1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 921. RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave.
- 922. RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage ...
- 923. RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
- 924. RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank account.
- 925. RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to fi ...
- 926. RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to det ...
- 927. RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his con ...
- 928. RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest i ...
- 929. RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck o ...
- 930. RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.
- 931. RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist.
- 932. RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
- 933. RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust a ...
- 934. REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have the ...
- 935. REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing ...
- 936. REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
- 937. Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
- 938. REVIEW, v.t.
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- 939. Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- 940. REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American ...
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