1119 Quotations with Bierce.
- 901. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...

- 902. Ambrose Bierce: YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the mo ...

- 903. Ambrose Bierce: YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra ...

- 904. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...

- 905. Ambrose Bierce: ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast ...

- 906. Ambrose Bierce: ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A pa ...

- 907. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...

- 908. Ambrose Bierce: ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the m ...

- 909. Ambrose Bierce: ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the ...

- 910. Ambrose Bierce: ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, t ...

- 911. Ambrose Bierce: Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without k ...

- 912. Ambrose Bierce: Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

- 913. Ambrose Bierce: Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguis ...

- 914. Ambrose Bierce: I think I think, therefore, I think I am.

- 915. Ambrose Bierce: Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as ...

- 916. Ambrose Bierce: Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

- 917. Ambrose Bierce: Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

- 918. Ambrose Bierce: Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.

- 919. Ambrose Bierce: Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

- 920. Ambrose Bierce: Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of ...

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