1568 Quotations with Down.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, F ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the indiv ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A pa ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, t ...
- 97. Unknown: On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same mo ...
- 98. Paul Fussell: If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in peo ...
- 99. Russell Baker: New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down o ...
- 100. Gore Vidal: I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters wh ...
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