3247 Quotations with Each.
- 221. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 222. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 223. Ambrose Bierce: ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three ...
- 224. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 225. Ambrose Bierce: PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exp ...
- 226. Ambrose Bierce: REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is po ...
- 227. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 228. Ambrose Bierce: RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for ...
- 229. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 230. Ambrose Bierce: ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mort ...
- 231. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 232. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 233. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 234. Ambrose Bierce: SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's ...
- 235. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 236. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 237. Ambrose Bierce: ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast ...
- 238. Ambrose Bierce: ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the m ...
- 239. Oscar Wilde: Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
- 240. Fred Allen: Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
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