PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
