Bacchus, n.:
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for
getting drunk.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for
getting drunk.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- Bacchus, n.:
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for
getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse
for getting drunk.
Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions... - BACCHUS:
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an... - Bacchus:
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse... - HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many
heads.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the
conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
-- Ambrose Bierce,
"The Devil's... - DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for
failure.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
-- Ambrose Bierce,
"The Devil's...
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smell... - 1. Stores that sell volume one will not know of volume two.
2. Stores that sell volume two will be out of volume... - There is never time to do it right,
but always time to do it over... - I'm not drunk -
I'm just motorfunctionally... - I have been asked to put something in here that touches us all.
While my intentions may be the very best, it is quite...
