5379 Quotations with Over.
- 361. Ambrose Bierce: ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
- 362. Ambrose Bierce: ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; ...
- 363. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 364. Ambrose Bierce: CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, th ...
- 365. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 366. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 367. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...
- 368. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...
- 369. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 370. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 371. Ambrose Bierce: DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misf ...
- 372. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 373. Ambrose Bierce: DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over anoth ...
- 374. Ambrose Bierce: DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a proh ...
- 375. Ambrose Bierce: DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a comman ...
- 376. Ambrose Bierce: DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow ...
- 377. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 378. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...
- 379. Ambrose Bierce: EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much us ...
- 380. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
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