1570 Quotations with Action.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has no ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, an ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversa ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
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