1230 ordspråk av Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce föddes den July 24th 1842 och dog den 11 January 1914 - US writer
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 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, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others. |
| POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. |
| POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. |
| POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. |
| Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy |
| Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy |
| Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. |
| POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. |
| Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. |
| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. |
| POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one. |
| POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas . . . |
| POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas." |
| PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession. His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky |
| PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. |
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