INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise
an object of charity.
"All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay,"
The good philanthropist replied;
"I did great service to a man one day
Who never since has cursed me to repay,
Nor vilified."
"Ho!" cried the cynic, "lead me to him straight --
With veneration I am overcome,
And fain would have his blessing." "Sad your fate --
He cannot bless you, for AI grieve to state
This man is dumb."
Ariel Selp
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
an object of charity.
"All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay,"
The good philanthropist replied;
"I did great service to a man one day
Who never since has cursed me to repay,
Nor vilified."
"Ho!" cried the cynic, "lead me to him straight --
With veneration I am overcome,
And fain would have his blessing." "Sad your fate --
He cannot bless you, for AI grieve to state
This man is dumb."
Ariel Selp
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern
for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!"... - Once Law was sitting on the bench
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! ... - LAW, n.
Once Law was sitting on the bench,
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor... - EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in
me.
Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls... - BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own,
undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted... - UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to
know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.
Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded... - ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man
of another man's choice.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Since I've seen this *several* times in this group,
the actual context of the God is dead quotation of...
From the same category:
- There is a square shape
lying here... - You can't do the crime if you are dead from capital
punishment... - Thy money perish with thee.
-- New Testament
--
Acts viii,... - There's safety in numbers: F16, F11, B2,
F15...... - But my lord! I've been in your family since 1532!
.
So has syphilis. Now get out. -- Baldrick and Edmund...
