Seth Messenger : Ambrose Bierce's quotes

Ambrose Bierce said :

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Ambrose Bierce
(Quotes)
#4239
Marriage is a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two people.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4240
Litigant. The person who is preparing to give up his skin in the hope of saving his bones.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4241
Pie: Bird whose provisions for flight have led some to assume that we could teach them to speak.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4242
Two times: one time too many.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4243
Wine: grape juice fermented known Association of Christian women under the name of "drink" and sometimes "rum".

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4244
Old age: a period of our existence during which we deal with the vices that we treasure still, vitupérant those that we no longer have the boldness to practice.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4245
Longevity: uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Ambrose Bierce
(Dictionnaire du diable)


#4246
Education. Which reveals to the wise and hides in the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce
(Dictionnaire du diable)


#4247
Eccentricity. Method of distinction so inexpensive that fools use it to accentuate their inability.

Ambrose Bierce
(Dictionnaire du diable)


#4248
Writing. Sacred books of our holy religion, not to be confused with the profane and false stories on which all other beliefs are based.

Ambrose Bierce
(Dictionnaire du diable)


#4249
Gentleman. Article produced by nature for rich young American girls who have the ambition to incur a new social distinction and to support the high society.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4250
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune that reached us and the stroke of luck that happens to other people.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4251
Debauchery. Anyone who has put so early pursuit of pleasure that she had the misfortune to catch him.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4252
Baptism. Rite sacred so effective that one who finds the way to heaven without having received will be plunged into the throes of distress for eternity.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4253
A Scot is a man who, before sending his Pajamas to the laundry stuff a sock in each pocket.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4254
Rope. The instrument used to remind the murderer he was also mortal.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4255
Hearse. Child of death car.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4256
Bigamy: lack of taste for which he will be inflicted a future punishment called trigamy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4257
Condolence: Way to demonstrate that mourning is a lesser evil beside sympathy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4258
Dictionary: questionable academic device intended to hinder the evolution of a language and to halt the operation.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4259
Envelope. Shroud of a document; sheath of a Bill; pod of a payment; bedspread of a love letter.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4260
Young girl. Fresh sex closed person, dedicated to a disorderly conduct and views that could push the crime.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4261
Kill. Create a holiday without naming a successor.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4262
Plagiarize. Borrow the thought and the style of another writer that was never, ever read.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4263
Male. Member of the negligible or less sex. The male of the human race is first and foremost considered (by the female) a producer.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4264
Submission. Patience in discomfort, but in the hope of revenge that's worth it.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4265
Member. A member who has not yet had all of what it hopes to achieve.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4266
Noise. The stench in the ear. Music not domesticated. Product main and authentic sign of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4267
Ghost. Obvious outward sign of an internal fear.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4268
Impunity. Prosperity.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4269
Convent. Place of meditation for women who aspire to meditate in peace on the vice of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du Diable)


#4270
Bride: a woman who has a bright future of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4271
Veneration: spiritual attitude of a man to God, and a dog to man.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4272
What is a sober after all? A weak man who yields to the temptation to refuse a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4273
Hypocrite. One who, professing virtues for which he has no respect, gains the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4274
Don't put never overnight what you can not do it at all.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4275
Perseverance is a dark virtue that allows the mediocrity of a success without glory.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4276
The Garter is an elastic tape to prevent a woman out of her stockings and sorry the country.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4277
Old age is the period of our existence during which we deal with the vices that we treasure still, vitupérant ones we dare more practice.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4278
Company: ingenious system for individual profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4279
Hand. Singular instrument located at the end of a human arm, and often down in the pocket of someone else.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4280
Wedding. Ceremony in which two people are committed to become one, one party agrees to become anything, and nothing is committed to become bearable.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4281
Logic. Art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with limitations and disabilities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4282
Inappropriate. Not intended to advance his interests.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4283
Vanity. The homage of a fool to the qualities of a donkey very intimate.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4284
Absent. Particularly exposed to the vilification. slandered; definitely in the wrong. forgotten of the esteem and affection of everyone.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4285
Otherwise: not better.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4286
Destiny. Justification of the tyrant for his crimes, apologize for the fool for its failures.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4287
Plagiarism. Literary coincidence of a rule given in doubt and a honorable formation.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4288
Presentable. Hideously arranged according to the ways of the time and the place.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4289
Philanthropist. Rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who forced himself to smile while his consciousness makes the pockets.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4290
Omen. Sign that something will happen if nothing happens.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4291
Intimate relationships. Reports to which fools are providentially trained for their mutual destruction.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4292
Tomb. Place where they place the dead, pending medical students.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4293
The narrative is the story almost always false, of events almost always immaterial, caused by heads of State who are almost all the rascals and the soldiers who are almost all fools.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4294
In diplomacy, the ultimatum is the last requirement before concessions.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4295
A corpse: finished product which we are raw.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4296
A deposit is a charitable contribution in the future of your bank.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4297
The Chattiness. Disease that makes the patient unable to hold his tongue when you want to talk.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4298
The lack of memory is a gift of God granted to debtors in compensation for the poverty of their conscience.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4299
The handkerchief is useful for funerals to hide the lack of tears.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4300
An expert is someone who knows everything about something and nothing about all the rest.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4301
A plebiscite is a popular vote to establish the authority of the sovereign.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4302
Knowledge is a kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious man.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4303
What is worth doing is worth we ask someone else to do.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4304
Reality. The dream of a mad philosopher. What would be left in the Cup so we became pure spirit. The kernel of a vacuum.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4305
Anoint. Grease a King or any other dignitary to the epidermis already enough slippery.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4306
The index. Finger pointing that if we follow him, shows two malefactors.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4307
Paint. Art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4308
Tax. Tax on importation, designed to protect the local producer of the greed of the consumer.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4309
Perseverance. Humble virtue that allows the poor to achieve a little glorious success.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4310
Language. Music with which we charm snakes guarding the treasure of another.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4311
Poker. Game that seems to play with cards and a purpose that the lexicographer don't know absolutely.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du Diable)


#4312
Preference. Feeling, or frame of mind, induced by the mistaken belief that one thing is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4313
Beg. Ask something with energy proportional to the certainty of receiving nothing.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4314
Ransom. Purchase of a thing that does not belong to the seller, any more than it is up to the buyer. The unsuccessful investments.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4315
Recreation. Particular period of boredom to remedy General fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4316
Opiate. Unlocks the door of the jail of identity. It overlooks the courtyard of the prison.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4317
Overwork. Disorder serious affecting public officials when they go fishing.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4318
Telescope. Invention which is an eye that the phone's ear, in the sense that it helps distant objects to attack us with a multitude of unnecessary details.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4319
Impiety. Your irreverence toward God.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4320
Dough. Agent announcing a conclusion called indigestion.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4321
November. The eleven twelfth of a weariness.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4322
Selfish. Without respect for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4323
Diary. Daily relationship on this part of existence that we can confide in oneself without having to blush.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4324
Frying pan. In female penal institutions, object which, coming from the kitchen, is part of the arsenal of punitive.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4325
Kleptomaniac. Rich thief.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4326
Pendulum. Machine a great moral support for the man, who reassures him in his relationship with the future in him Recalling the great amount of time remaining to him to live.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4327
Fiance. By a ring at ankle, connected to a chain and a Cannonball.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4328
Mammals. Family of vertebrate animals whose females are naturally breastfeeding children, but whose educated and civilized version uses a nanny or a bottle.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du Diable)


#4329
Tail. Part of the backbone of an animal.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4330
Medal. Small disc of metal, given as a reward for virtues, talents or services more or less authentic.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4331
Policy. Fight interest disguised discussion of principles. Conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4332
Historian. Fly high talker.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4333
Sustained note. High point of your meal at the restaurant, during the season of umbrellas.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4334
Fool. Member of a large and powerful tribe, whose influence in human affairs has always been pre-eminent.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4335
Consolation. When we see a best man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4336
Hide. Put a clean shirt on the subject.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4337
Impostor. Rival candidate in public honours.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4338
Queen. Woman by whom the Kingdom is run when there is a King, and through which it is headed when it does not.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4339
Air. Nutrient generously provided by Providence to fatten up the poor.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4340
Listen to the doors. Secretly access the catalogue of vices and crimes other than yourselves.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4341
Excuse. The foundations of a future offence.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4342
Journalist. A writer who tries to find his way in the truth, and that disperse it in a storm of words.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4343
Earth. Name of our planet, but also its surface, considered as being likely to be subject to the property.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4344
Carnivore. Who engages in the cruel action of eating the plant unfortunate, as well as its Usufructuaries and successors.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4345
Jalopy. No musical instrument, played by typing feverishly with teeth and trying to push out it with your finger.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4346
Trader. Person engaged in a business process. A commercial approach is an action in which the demarchee thing is a dollar.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4347
Eat. Accomplish successively (and successfully) wetting, swallowing and chewing functions.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4348
Hate. The feeling that is suitable to the confrontation of the superiority of others.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4349
Quote. Wrong repetition of a statement of others.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4350
Speaker. A man who puts his hand in his pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4351
Gossip. Make a portrait of a man as he is, when he's not here.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4352
Diplomacy. The patriotic art of lying for his country.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4353
Back. Part of your friend that you have the privilege to contemplate when you are in trouble.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4354
Opera. Piece representing the life of another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but songs, not movements but gestures, no postures, but attitudes.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4355
Accordion. Instrument in harmony with the feelings of an assassin.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4356
Hope. Desire and expectation rolled in one batch.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4357
Beauty. Power that allows the woman to charm a lover and terrify a husband.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4358
Exile. Person who serves his country residing abroad, without being Ambassador.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4359
Loss. Deprivation of what we have, or do not have. It is in this second sense said to a beaten candidate that he has "lost the elections".

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4360
Grammar. System of traps deliberately prepared for tripping the self-taught journey on which he moves the distinction.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du Diable)


#4361
Compromise. Kind of adjustment of interests which is to give each opponent the satisfaction of thinking that was what he couldn't get, and he is deprived of nothing, if not what was actually owed.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4362
Habit. Hindrance to freedom.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4363
Prejudice. Opinion that wanders without visible means of transport.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4364
Consult. Seek the approval of others for a project already well stopped.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4365
Prude. Lustful person who hides behind his dignity.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4366
Crayfish. Small crustacean resembling lobster, more indigestible.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4367
Senate. Group responsible gentlemen of a certain age with high responsibilities and of dark misdeeds.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4368
Poor. The individual who had put his trust in the support of its friends.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4369
Congratulations. Courtesy of jealousy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4370
Poetry. Form of expression of the lands which start beyond magazines.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4371
Looking forward. How to do bad performers.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4372
Radium. Mineral which produces heat and excited at the scientific body that makes it silly.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4373
Absurdity. Claim manifestly incompatible with his own opinion.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4374
Inconstancy. Chronic saturation of an emotional adventure.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4375
Mouse. Animal whose path is littered with fainting women.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du Diable)


#4376
Beard. Hairs that are usually cut by those who rightly feel that the Chinese custom of shaving the head is absurd.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4377
Bigot. The person who is attached with zeal and persistence to a belief that you do not share.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4378
Ugliness. Gift from heaven to some women, causing virtue without humility.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4379
Providential. Who benefits clearly and in an unexpected way to the recipient.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4380
Rest. Stop disturbing.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4381
Frog. Reptile with edible legs.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4382
Machination. The method used by an opponent to frustrate our own honourable efforts towards a goal clear and estimable.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4383
Prophecy. Art and the way of selling its credibility with a future delivery.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4384
Ruse. What is brain fools.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4385
Immigrant. Ill-informed individual who think that one country is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4386
Monument. Structure to commemorate something that requires no commemoration, or can not be commemorated.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4387
Rum. Generic term for hot brandies that plunge into delirium temperance leagues.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4388
Neighbor. Person we are asked to love as ourselves, and who does everything he can to make us disobey.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4389
Youth. The age of the possible.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4390
Pants. The adult male less civilized clothing. The garment is tubular and devoid of hinges to the bending points. Probably, it was invented by a comedian.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4391
Canon. The instrument used in the rectification of national borders.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4392
Vociferation. Mode of expression of an opponent.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4393
Malefactor. Main factor in the progress of the human race.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4394
Opposition. In politics, the party that prevents Government to go fight the campaign with inconsistency, cutting off his hocks.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4395
Loquacity. Condition that increases in the patient unable to restrain his tongue when you wish to take the floor.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4396
Pig. Surprisingly close animal of the human race by the liveliness and the splendor of his appetite.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4397
Grapeshot. Argument that the future prepares to meet the requirements of American socialism.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4398
Lock. Distinctive unit of civilization and of the evolution of thought.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4399
Mirror. Glassy surface on which is reflected a fleeting image to the great disappointment of the man.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4400
Piano. Utensil show intended to have because of the unrepentant visitor. It works by depressing the keys of the instrument and the morale of the audience.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4401
Discussion. Way of confirming others in their errors.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4402
Peace. In International Affairs, period of deceit between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4403
Illustrates. Ideally placed for the arrows of the spirit, of envy and disparagement.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4404
Spelling. The science that spell with the eye instead of the ear. Defended with more heat to light by a few fumbles of asylums.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4405
Presidency. The fattest pig from the field of politics.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4406
Knowledge. Form of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4407
Thoughtless. Insensitive to the value of your Board.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4408
Pity. Honey quality of perpetrators combined.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4409
Misfortune. This sort of fortune that never miss us.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4410
Phonograph. Irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4411
Pedestrian. Moving (and audible) part of the roadway for a car.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4412
Humanity. The human race as a whole, with the exception of the anthropoid poets.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4413
Inventor. Person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes that it is civilization.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4414
Fly Speck. Primitive sign of punctuation.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4415
Aborigines. People of lesser importance that clutter the landscape of a newly discovered country.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4416
Procedure. Where you enter such a pig and which you ladies like a sausage machine.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4417
Mine. That is mine if I get to hold him or catch him.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4418
Remonstrance. Complaint made nicely, as with a meat grinder.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4419
Insensitive. Endowed with great strength of soul to withstand the evils which hit someone else.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4420
Dictator. Leader of a nation that prefers the stench of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4421
Barometer. Ingenious instrument that indicates the kind of time we are undergoing.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4422
Praise. Tribute to a person who has the cumulative benefits of power and wealth, or consideration of the death.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4423
Respectability. Fruit of the love between a bald and a good banking situation.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4424
Dentist. Conjurer who while putting metal in your mouth, steals coins in your pocket.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4425
Childhood. Interim period of human life between childhood idiocy and insanity of the youth, two stadiums above the original fault and three stages below the remorse of old age.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4426
Borders. In political geography, imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4427
Liar. Anyone who practices the expression of truth with a conscience quite loose.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4428
Millennium. Period of a thousand years, when the lid can be screwed back with all the reformers underneath.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4429
Publish. In literary Affairs, becoming a focal point in the viewfinder of the criticism.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4430
Ink. Vile compound of tannin, black smoke, gum Arabic and water, mainly used to facilitate contagion of foolishness and promote intellectual crime.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4431
Genealogy. List someone's ancestors from a distant ancestor who cared little in his time to establish his.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4432
Man of the law. Skilled person in the misuse of the law.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4433
Opportunity. Opportunity to enter a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4434
Optimist. Follower of the doctrine that black is white.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4435
Witch. 1 / horrible and repulsive old woman, in perverse activity with the devil. 2 / beautiful and attractive young person, with the perverse activities over the devil.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4436
Hybrid. Result of an associative approach.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4437
Gargoyle. Discharge pipe of rain water on the eaves of the medieval structures, usually as grotesque, caricature of a personal enemy of the architect or the building owner.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4438
Confess. Confess a fault. Reveal the faults of others is a great duty imposed by the love of the truth.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4439
Man. So bewildered animal in wonderful contemplation of what he thinks he is, he neglects what he should undoubtedly be.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4440
Mythology. All of the beliefs of a primitive people about its origins, its prehistory, its heroes, its gods, etc... not to be confused with the true stories which are invented subsequently.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4441
Oyster. Shell slimy and runny, that civilization gives men the courage to swallow without him remove his bowels! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4442
Ardour. Particular State of love without the experience.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4443
Rebel. Anyone who proposed a new form of political disorder, and who failed in his attempt to impose it.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4444
Curiosity. Bad thing of the female spirit. To know whether or not a woman is burning curiosity is one of the most active and the most insatiable soul men's passions.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4445
Dog. Sort of divinity of substitution. This sacred entity is in the heart of the woman that no human male can never pretend.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4446
Indiscretion. Women's guilt.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4447
Laziness. Suspension of totally unjustified activity at a low level.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4448
Quibbler. Anyone coming to criticize our work.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4449
Phone. Invention of the devil which cancels some of the benefits to keep an unpleasant person remotely.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4450
Egomaniac. Person of low taste, more interested in itself but by me.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4451
Legal. Compatible with the will of a judge in his jurisdiction.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4452
Longevity. Uncomfortable extension of the fear of death.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4453
Platonic. Platonic love is a totally absurd name for the emotional relationship between a cube and a failed.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4454
Husband. Person who, after dinner, is charged with the care of the plate.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4455
Geographer. Individual who can tell you to point blank the difference there is between the outside and the inside of the globe.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4456
Critics. One of the many methods that are fond fools to lose their friends.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4457
Of. Instrument of fate, as attested to by the expression: "the die is cast".

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4458
Ocean. Body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world intended for human - which is devoid of gills.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4459
Imagination. Storehouse of ideas, including the poet and the liar are co-owners.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4460
Voter. Person who enjoys the distinguished privilege to vote for the man of the choice of another man.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4461
Riot. Popular entertainment given to military personnel by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4462
Penitent. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4463
Jealous. Who is unduly interested in the preservation of something that cannot be lost if it is not well kept.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4464
Appetite. Instinct deliberately implanted by Providence to serve the muse of the work.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4465
Fiancée. Young person who has a beautiful prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4466
Gale. The Scottish patriotism.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4467
Uncomfortable position. Price of constancy in opinions.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4468
Famous. Obviously very unhappy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4469
Council. Small change in common use.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4470
Duel. Preliminary formality to the reconciliation of two enemies.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4471
Make happy. The foundations of a structure constraint.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4472
Bacchus. Complacent divinity invented by the ancients to excuse their excessive drinking.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4473
Hachette. Young axe, the Indians named tomahawk.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4474
Circus. Place where the horses, ponies and elephants are allowed to see men, women and children behave like idiots.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4475
Monday. In Christian countries, of the third day.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4476
With impunity. In the intermediate mindset between the time of the fault and the time of punishment.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4477
Defame. Lie about someone. The truth about someone.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4478
Year. Period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4479
Archbishop. Dignitary, ecclesiastical, holiest of a degree as a bishop.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4480
Kilt. Costume sometimes worn by the Scots in America, and Americans in Scotland.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4481
Epitaph. Inscription on a grave, demonstrating the virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4482
Barracks. Place where soldiers take advantage of what sort of things they are asked to suppress otherwise.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4483
Brain. Device with which we think we think. What distinguishes the man who is content to be something that wants to do something.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4484
Realism. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by the toads. Charm that is a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a maggot.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4485
Baby. Deformed creature to the age, sex and indeterminate condition, highly remarkable by violence sympathies and antipathies that it provokes in others, without expressing itself of feeling or emotion.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4486
Cynic. Rude man whose distorted vision sees things as they are and not as they should be.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4487
Friendship. Boat big enough to carry two people when it is sunny, but a single bad weather.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4488
Clarinet. Instrument of torture used by a person who has the cotton in ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarinet - two Clarinets.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4489
Dowser. Person who uses a divination wand for mining the precious metal in the pocket of a fool.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4490
Flood: first and remarkable experience of baptism which eliminated the world all the sins and all fishermen.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4491
Pray. Ask that the laws of the universe be cancelled in favour of a single petitioner, unworthy of his own admission.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4492
Insurgency. The revolution that failed. Unsuccessful attempt to substitute the disorder to bad government.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4493
Reconsider. Looking for a justification for a decision already made.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4494
Mouth. In humans, the gateway to the soul; in women, the outcome of the heart.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4495
The recruit is the one who stands of a civilian by his uniform and a soldier by his approach.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4496
Appeal. In terms of justice, asking that we back the dice in the cone for a new launch.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4497
Accomplishment. The end of the effort and the beginning of boredom.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4498
Bravos. The currency with which the populace pays those who flatter and devour.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4499
AdAge. Porridge of wisdom for bad teeth.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4500
Conservative. A politician who likes the existing evils, that should not be confused with the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4501
Work. One of the process whereby A WINS goods for B.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4502
You will not work on the Sabbath day, this day is devoted to football matches.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4503
Cat. Sweet and indestructible automaton provided by Nature to take kick when something goes wrong in the family circle.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4504
You can not fly. The flight is pernicious; the works in the business is much safer.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4505
You will not kiss your neighbor's wife, unless yours has succumbed to his caresses.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4506
Monkey. Arboreal animal that also feels very much at home in trees.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4507
High school. 1 / ancient school where you had a philosophy. 2 / modern school where we discussed football.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4508
Faith. Belief without evidence in what is stated by someone who speaks without knowing, or who thinks without compare.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4509
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for the benefit of individuals.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4510
You'll never bring false testimony; you only echo of public gossip.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4511
Conversation. Fair where each offers its small mental items, each exhibitor being too concerned about the arrangement of his own goods to those of its neighbours.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4512
Happiness. Pleasant feeling that arises from the contemplation of the misery of others.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4513
Homeopath. The humorist of the medical profession.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4514
Minister. Anyone who acts with great power and a little responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4515
There is nothing new under the Sun, but there are also a whole bunch of old stuff that we ignore.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4516
Edible. Likely to be eaten and digested. Like a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to man and man for the worm.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4517
Table. Two dimensional representation of something uninteresting in three.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4518
Port. Place where the boats are protected from storms and exposed to the fury of the customs.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4519
Next: one that we've been ordered to love as ourselves and which strives by all means to us make disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du diable)


#4520
Prehistoric. Who belongs to an early period and a museum. Prior to the art and practice of the perpetuated lie.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4521
Only one. In bad company.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4522
When we talk too of the Wolf, he will eventually learn it.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4523
Nihilist. Russian who denies the existence of everything except Tolstoy. The founder of the movement's Tolstoy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4524
Violin. Instrument that tickles human ears by the friction of a tail of a horse on the guts of a cat.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4525
Reckless: insensitive to the value of our advice.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4526
Zeal. Nervous disease that afflicts young and the inexperienced. Passion that only soars to better spread.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4527
Psychic. Person of the female sex to see what is invisible to his client, namely that he is a fool.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4528
Philosophy. Road with many paths and stretching from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4529
Women would be lovely if we could fall into their arms without falling into their hands.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4530
Patience. Minor of despair, disguised form in virtue.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4531
Saint. Fisherman dead, reviewed and corrected.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4532
Politeness. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le Dictionnaire du diable)


#4533
Reason. Weigh of probabilities on the scale of desire.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4534
Antipathy. Feeling inspired by the friend of a friend.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4535
Scholarship. Empty dust falling from a book in a skull.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4536
Who succeeds with women is one who knows to stop.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4537
Bore. A person who talks when you wish she listens to.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4538
Wheat, cereal which we get, not without difficulty, to shoot a pretty good whisky and used to make bread.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4539
An acquaintance is someone we know enough to borrow money, but not enough to lend.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4540
A good advice is better than follow.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4541
Distances. The only thing that the rich are willing to give to the poor in wishing that they keep it.

Ambrose Bierce
(Le dictionnaire du Diable)


#4542
Cabbage: familiar vegetable grown in gardens and which equals roughly in size and wisdom of a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


#4543
Fanatic. The one which persists to support an opinion that is not yours.

Ambrose Bierce
(Source inconnue)


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