1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 1101. Woman absent is woman dead.
- 1102. WOMAN, n.
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- 1103. WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal ...
- 1104. WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A po ...
- 1105. WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous oc ...
- 1106. X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling ...
- 1107. YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Sout ...
- 1108. YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- 1109. YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
But yesterday I ...
- 1110. YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating word ...
- 1111. YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and ...
- 1112. ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buf ...
- 1113. ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. The Zanzi ...
- 1114. ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth bef ...
- 1115. ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man ...
- 1116. ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as G ...
- 1117. ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. ...
- 1118. ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca ...
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