1244 Quotations with Wise.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperat ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over anoth ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish th ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death hav ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 110. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarde ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having in ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the ind ...
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