4304 Quotations with Stan.
- 281. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 282. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...
- 283. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 284. Ambrose Bierce: MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the Ame ...
- 285. Ambrose Bierce: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Represent ...
- 286. Ambrose Bierce: NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarde ...
- 287. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 288. Ambrose Bierce: ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A ...
- 289. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 290. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 291. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...
- 292. Ambrose Bierce: REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the ...
- 293. Ambrose Bierce: RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of ...
- 294. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 295. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 296. Ambrose Bierce: RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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- 297. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...
- 298. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 299. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
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- 300. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
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