627 Quotations with Heaven.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CANONICALS, n. The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven.
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Bre ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 39. Ambrose Bierce: PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat pref ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
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