1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 81. APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider.
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- 82. Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- 83. APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
- 84. APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- 85. ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
- 86. Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
- 87. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
- 88. ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
- 89. ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of ...
- 90. ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
- 91. ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.
- 92. ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassal ...
- 93. ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice u ...
- 94. ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation ...
- 95. ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Was ...
- 96. AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
- 97. AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been ...
- 98. BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he was popular with the P ...
- 99. Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
- 100. BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
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