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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
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce
Man Vote Duty Both Highly Another Opinion Ballot Privilege Prized Which Commonly Held Choice Means Noun Expression Right Suffrage Interpreted
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. Ambrose Bierce
Soul Woman Quality Mind Active Insatiable Objectionable Masculine Know Most Female Female Mind Passions Curiosity Cursed Whether Desire
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
Me More Himself Than Person Interested
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce
Time Day Hours Period Mostly Twenty-Four
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge Ignorance Give Classify Small Small Part Part Name Arrange
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce
Own Statement Absurdity Opinion Belief Inconsistent
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Ambrose Bierce
Nature Spring Trees Respond All Things Call Leaving Things
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Ambrose Bierce
Battle Political Teeth Would Knot Method Yield Tongue
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Ambrose Bierce
Too State Punish Those Would Would-Be Magnanimity Offenders Expensive Whom Amnesty
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Ambrose Bierce
Book Dust Out Shaken Empty Erudition Skull
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. Ambrose Bierce
Doubt Possible Only Begins Frontiers Last
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Ambrose Bierce
Life Best Give Up Them Thing Things
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce
Positive Top Voice Mistaken
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Ambrose Bierce
Drunk Ancient Deity Invented Excuse Getting Getting Drunk Convenient
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Ambrose Bierce
Side Determine Examining Deliberation Bread Which Act Buttered
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce
Miserable Adjective Conspicuously Famous
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Ambrose Bierce
Wealth Power Consideration Advantages Dead Praise Person Either Eulogy Who
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. Ambrose Bierce
Financial Tribe Dreaded Beyond Dwelling Creditor Savages
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. Ambrose Bierce
Joke Clever Philistine Pleased Seldom Remark Sharp Call Quoted Noted
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce
Youth Experience Enthusiasm Repentance Small Outward Doses Connection Applications
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Ambrose Bierce
Degree Consist Solemnity High Ability Mainly Commonly Found
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Ambrose Bierce
People Out Absence Absent Friends Really
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce
You Wish Bore Him Talks Person Listen Who
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Ambrose Bierce
Others Everything Total Abstain Affairs Inactivity Who
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce
Positive Top Adjective Voice Mistaken
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
Love Knowledge Quality Distinguishes Ardor Without
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