6092 Quotations with Them.
- 441. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 442. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
- 443. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 444. Ambrose Bierce: PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many pa ...
- 445. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...
- 446. Ambrose Bierce: PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of ant ...
- 447. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...
- 448. Ambrose Bierce: REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provid ...
- 449. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 450. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 451. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 452. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...
- 453. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...
- 454. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 455. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 456. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 457. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 458. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 459. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 460. Ambrose Bierce: SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's ...
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