APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle
only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient
to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient
to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion,
who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate... - EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth
and power,
or the consideration to be dead. -- Ambrose Bierce... - REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish
it.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Dejeuner, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris.
Variously pronounced. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's... - Windows and DOS --
a turtle and it's shell... - PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
-
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg
of a cock.
The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal... - HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the
plate.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
-- Ambrose Bierce,
"The Devil's...
From the same category:
- Some think Al Gore as hypocrisy
personified... - I owe the public nothing.
-
J.P.... - I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't
look at other moms.
Garry... - Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of... - There were but little work left for preaching,
if law and compulsion should grow so fast upon those things
which hithertofore were governed only by exhortation.
John...
