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Pockets Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
- An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
- Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
- POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,…
- LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
- QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually…
- COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D…
- PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
- Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
- HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. — Ambrose Bierce
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that… — Ambrose Bierce
- It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. — Elizabeth Bowen
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