3030 Quotations with Thos.
- 201. Ambrose Bierce: CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exh ...
- 202. Ambrose Bierce: DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms ...
- 203. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 204. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 205. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 206. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 207. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 208. Ambrose Bierce: FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- 209. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 210. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 211. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
- 212. Ambrose Bierce: INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry our ...
- 213. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 214. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 215. Ambrose Bierce: LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...
- 216. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...
- 217. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...
- 218. Ambrose Bierce: NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarde ...
- 219. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 220. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated ...
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