Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
"Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?"
Says the priest. "Since the time 'o yer wooin'
She's niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at --
For it's naught ye are ever doin'."
"That's true of yer Riverence [sic]," Patrick replies,
And no sign of contrition envices;
"But, bedad, it's a fact which the word implies,
For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!"
Marley Wottel"
Assisted | Bedad | Bitter | Called |
Contrition | Doin | Envices | Expinses |
Fact | Half | Helpmate | Helps |
Implies | Marley | Mate | Naught |
Niver | Patrick | Priest | Replies |
Riverence | Says | Shes | Sign |
Since | Thats | Time | True |
Wife | Wooin | Word | Wottel |