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Own Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
- EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our…
- OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of…
- CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and…
- CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of…
- TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
- COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
- Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
- UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
- PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard…
- CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
- QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the…
- Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
- JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct…
- Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe…
- MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility…
- MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His…
- When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
- DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.…
- MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,…
- TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
- Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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