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Made Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
- To seek a justification for a decision already made.
- A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
- WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat…
- A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long…
- BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
- OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
- PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
- RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
- 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…
- SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more…
- LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
- SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body…
- GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter…
- REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
- Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any…
- SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read…
- PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by…
- DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and…
- CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…
- YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a…
- Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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