Famous Quotes
1125 Quotations with Bier.
- 981. Ambrose Bierce: Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- 982. Ambrose Bierce: Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by revil ...
- 983. Ambrose Bierce: Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
- 984. Ambrose Bierce: Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their han ...
- 985. Ambrose Bierce: Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and mad ...
- 986. Ambrose Bierce: An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural ...
- 987. Ambrose Bierce: An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enou ...
- 988. Ambrose Bierce: An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
- 989. Ambrose Bierce: An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- 990. Ambrose Bierce: Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- 991. Ambrose Bierce: Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
- 992. Ambrose Bierce: Backbite. To "speak of a man as you find him" when he can't find you.
- 993. Ambrose Bierce: Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- 994. Ambrose Bierce: Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do n ...
- 995. Ambrose Bierce: Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- 996. Ambrose Bierce: Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- 997. Ambrose Bierce: Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary ...
- 998. Ambrose Bierce: Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- 999. Ambrose Bierce: Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished fr ...
- 1000. Ambrose Bierce: Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office fro ...