1132 Quotations with Ambrose.
- 601. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 602. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 603. Ambrose Bierce: PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- 604. Ambrose Bierce: PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
- 605. Ambrose Bierce: PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
- 606. Ambrose Bierce: PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a ...
- 607. Ambrose Bierce: PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists ...
- 608. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
- 609. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 610. Ambrose Bierce: PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated b ...
- 611. Ambrose Bierce: PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It i ...
- 612. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 613. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 614. Ambrose Bierce: PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance t ...
- 615. Ambrose Bierce: PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the s ...
- 616. Ambrose Bierce: PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many pa ...
- 617. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 618. Ambrose Bierce: PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype ...
- 619. Ambrose Bierce: PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
- 620. Ambrose Bierce: PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter wit ...
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