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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
nominate, nominated, nominating, successor, vacancies, vacancy
«LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.»
«MINE, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.»
«MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, contest, divers, puncture, punctured, punctures, swim bladder, The Victor, vanquished
«LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bedder, delectable, lodger, lodgers, roomer, second person
«LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.»
«MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dissuade, dissuaded, dissuading, mace, office staff, signifying
«LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.»
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