1504 Quotations with Wing.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one per ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries b ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
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