1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 1021. TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his ne ...
- 1022. TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word ...
- 1023. TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
- 1024. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreea ...
- 1025. TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, ena ...
- 1026. TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attain ...
- 1027. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- 1028. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
- 1029. The covers of this book are too far apart.
- 1030. The future is the period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happine ...
- 1031. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- 1032. The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
- 1033. The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- 1034. The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
- 1035. The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
- 1036. THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. ...
- 1037. There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
- 1038. There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- 1039. TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press age ...
- 1040. To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
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