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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Born: Jun 24, 1842
Died: 1914
About Adjective His Man Person Politics
Related authors: Charles Krauthammer Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. Ambrose Bierce
Game Man Conviction Enjoy Table Beating He Comfortable Insurance Permitted Modern Which Ingenious Who Keeps Player Chance
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Ambrose Bierce
Beautiful Example Poison Striking Identity Deadly Italian Essential Lady English Tongues Two
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce
Education Wise Understanding Foolish Lack Which
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
Technology Invention Devil Distance Telephone Some Disagreeable Advantages Making His Person Which Keep
The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce
Book Too Covers Apart Far
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. Ambrose Bierce
Action Approval Seek Consult Course Decided
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. Ambrose Bierce
Death Remains Over End Estate Litigation
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
Good Calamities Others Ourselves Kinds Misfortunes Fortune Good Fortune Two
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce
Hope Nature Religion Ignorance Fear Daughter Unknowable Explaining
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Bierce
God World Made Seventh Having Sabbath Fact Weekly Days Arrested Festival Six Six Days Origin
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce
You Legal Machine Out Lawsuit Come Pig Go Which Sausage
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
Patience Virtue Minor Disguised Form
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce
Words Another Repeating Quotation Act
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce
Good Man Snake Digest Worm Eat Pig Edible Toad Wholesome
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. Ambrose Bierce
Woman Power Seeing He Invisible Namely Blockhead Person Patron Which Commonly Who Her
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Ambrose Bierce
Life Age Youth Three Folly Between Sin Remorse Period Idiocy Infancy Childhood Human Manhood Human Life Intermediate Two
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce
Success Our Unpardonable Sin Fellows Against Success Is
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
Religion State French Mayonnaise Place Which Serve
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Ambrose Bierce
Madness Rum Total Fiery Produce
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. Ambrose Bierce
You Man Speak Find He Him
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce
Visible Support Without Opinion Prejudice Means
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce
Failure Man Enemies First Ranks Would Bear He Like Arms Himself Makes First-Person His Person Being Against Certain Convinced Doubts Who
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce
Success Perseverance Mediocrity Virtue Achieves Whereby Lowly
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce
Enough Borrow Know Well Well Enough Person Lend Acquaintance Whom
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
Man Change Better Evident Feel Him Makes Always While Skepticism Actual
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Ambrose Bierce
Great King Other Slippery Sufficiently Grease
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