Related:

• BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...