1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 181. Ambrose Bierce: DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if p ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a comman ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character
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- 186. Ambrose Bierce: DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call their ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of masticatio ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accent ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
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