APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
-- Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary... - VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a
fool of himself and a wreck of his country
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich
Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary... - RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ
that a scientist is a fool with
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for
failure
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted
to see men
women and children acting the fool. -- Ambrose Bierce... - DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as
many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce
and the early fool
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary... - FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and
controlling energy inspires Man's mind
guides his actions and adorns his life. Folly...
