5428 Quotations with King.
- 301. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 302. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 303. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 304. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 305. Ambrose Bierce: DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a languag ...
- 306. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 307. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 308. Ambrose Bierce: ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it ...
- 309. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
- 310. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 311. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 312. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 313. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 314. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 315. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 316. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...
- 317. Ambrose Bierce: FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in f ...
- 318. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 319. Ambrose Bierce: GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stoc ...
- 320. Ambrose Bierce: GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied ...
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