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"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, More quotation on Boredom. |
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"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. |