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Head Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated…
- KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to…
- FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force…
- 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…
- Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
- PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an…
- TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:…
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
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- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. — Jane Austen
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