396 Quotations with Rated.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his e ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated b ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing bu ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitati ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the m ...
- 40. Menander: The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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