20587 Quotations with Ther.
- 1301. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...

- 1302. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...

- 1303. Ambrose Bierce: MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and vie ...

- 1304. Ambrose Bierce: MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the h ...

- 1305. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...

- 1306. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...

- 1307. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...

- 1308. Ambrose Bierce: MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from ...

- 1309. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...

- 1310. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...

- 1311. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...

- 1312. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...

- 1313. Ambrose Bierce: NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

- 1314. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...

- 1315. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...

- 1316. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...

- 1317. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 1318. Ambrose Bierce: OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bish ...

- 1319. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...

- 1320. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...

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