794 Quotations with Aught.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: KEEP, v.t.
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- 62. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance t ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. T ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
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- 74. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: WOMAN, n.
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- 79. Calvin Trillin: Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung ...
- 80. Peter Ustinov: I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where futu ...
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