Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce: American writer and author of The Devil's Dictionary, 1842 to about 1914.
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Applause, n. The echo of a platitude.”
Attributed to Ambrose Bierce · Capsule book review
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · A definition from The Devil's Dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.”
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Calamity, n....Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.”
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.” · The dictionary entry runs on past the familiar cut: the insanity is also curable "by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder."
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.”
Ambrose Bierce · The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Ambrose Bierce · Couplet
Ambrose Bierce · The source reads: “Prejudice, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
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