1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 961. RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of ...
- 962. RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
- 963. RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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- 964. RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
- 965. SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and ...
- 966. SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous do ...
- 967. SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are ...
- 968. SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn though ...
- 969. SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or ca ...
- 970. SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- 971. Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.
- 972. Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
- 973. SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those w ...
- 974. SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still ...
- 975. SANDLOTTER, n. A vertebrate mammal holding the political views of Denis Kearney, a notorious demagog ...
- 976. SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, h ...
- 977. SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated a ...
- 978. SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
- 979. SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's e ...
- 980. SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Le ...
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