1125 Quotations with Bier.
- 581. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...

- 582. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...

- 583. Ambrose Bierce: PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is t ...

- 584. Ambrose Bierce: PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the d ...

- 585. Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language ...

- 586. Ambrose Bierce: PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lu ...

- 587. Ambrose Bierce: PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exp ...

- 588. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...

- 589. Ambrose Bierce: PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual d ...

- 590. Ambrose Bierce: PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

- 591. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the wh ...

- 592. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...

- 593. Ambrose Bierce: PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of ...

- 594. Ambrose Bierce: PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

- 595. Ambrose Bierce: PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim b ...

- 596. Ambrose Bierce: PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

- 597. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...

- 598. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...

- 599. Ambrose Bierce: PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an obse ...

- 600. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...

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