4954 Quotations with Able.
- 281. Ambrose Bierce: CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indig ...
- 282. Ambrose Bierce: CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to pl ...
- 283. Ambrose Bierce: CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know wh ...
- 284. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 285. Ambrose Bierce: DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack.
- 286. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 287. Ambrose Bierce: DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and ...
- 288. Ambrose Bierce: DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Aff ...
- 289. Ambrose Bierce: DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if p ...
- 290. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 291. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 292. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 293. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 294. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 295. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
- 296. Ambrose Bierce: ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in con ...
- 297. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 298. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 299. Ambrose Bierce: EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acq ...
- 300. Ambrose Bierce: FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
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