7919 Quotations with Life.
- 541. Ambrose Bierce: EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death hav ...
- 542. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 543. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 544. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 545. Ambrose Bierce: INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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- 546. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 547. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 548. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 549. Ambrose Bierce: LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...
- 550. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
- 551. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...
- 552. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...
- 553. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 554. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 555. Ambrose Bierce: PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lu ...
- 556. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 557. Ambrose Bierce: PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
- 558. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 559. Ambrose Bierce: PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief th ...
- 560. Ambrose Bierce: REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is po ...
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