Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be… — 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 tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
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
