4666 Quotations with Heir.
- 321. Ambrose Bierce: MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who nev ...
- 322. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 323. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...
- 324. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 325. Ambrose Bierce: OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their p ...
- 326. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 327. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 328. Ambrose Bierce: PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of ...
- 329. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...
- 330. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...
- 331. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
- 332. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...
- 333. Ambrose Bierce: QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal l ...
- 334. Ambrose Bierce: QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their o ...
- 335. Ambrose Bierce: REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the ...
- 336. Ambrose Bierce: REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o ...
- 337. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 338. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
- 339. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 340. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
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