Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Rash, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.

Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery.

Administration, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

Admiration,n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

Adam’s apple, n. A protuberance in the throat of man, thoughtfully provided by nature to keep the rope in place.

Infalapsarian, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to – in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person’s fall was decreed from the beginning.

Achievement, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Commendation, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Accuse, v.t. To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.