1132 Quotations with Ambrose.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to pl ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know wh ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operat ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: DANGER, n.
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- 153. Ambrose Bierce: DARING, n. One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose impo ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: DEAD, adj.
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- 158. Ambrose Bierce: DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misf ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.
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- 160. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
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