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Called Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
- GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there…
- EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the…
- PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central…
- PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called…
- A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old…
- REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a…
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
- PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
- ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
- GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the…
- REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative…
- Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
- Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when…
- Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is…
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
- INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The…
- Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
- LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at…
- CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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