2310 Quotations with Power.
- 161. Ambrose Bierce: EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, ...
- 162. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...
- 163. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 165. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 166. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 168. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 169. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomac ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is lar ...
- 178. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 179. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 180. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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