1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 161. CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what ...
- 162. CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of y ...
- 163. CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited t ...
- 164. Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a li ...
- 165. CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children a ...
- 166. Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to ...
- 167. CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two i ...
- 168. Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of betterin ...
- 169. CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his ...
- 170. CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- which she did with gr ...
- 171. COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
- 172. COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
- 173. COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B ...
- 174. COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasit ...
- 175. COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
- 176. Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of ...
- 177. COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
- 178. CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
- 179. CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by _him_ to C.
- 180. Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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