14805 Quotations with Thing.
- 1041. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...

- 1042. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...

- 1043. Ambrose Bierce: NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The lea ...

- 1044. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 1045. Ambrose Bierce: OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bish ...

- 1046. Ambrose Bierce: OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

- 1047. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...

- 1048. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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- 1049. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated ...

- 1050. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...

- 1051. Ambrose Bierce: PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the d ...

- 1052. Ambrose Bierce: PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

- 1053. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 1054. Ambrose Bierce: PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing bu ...

- 1055. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...

- 1056. Ambrose Bierce: PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of ant ...

- 1057. Ambrose Bierce: PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absenc ...

- 1058. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...

- 1059. Ambrose Bierce: PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief th ...

- 1060. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...

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