BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to
eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers,
which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-
smelling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers,
which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-
smelling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly
execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and
devour it.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would
be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs
when well.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that
we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the
enterprise to commit.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others
and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the
back.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and
commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Hand, n.:
A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and
commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
From the same category:
- We killed the last of the Bugbears.
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Famous Last... - Figures lie and women
figure....... - Leonard Nimoy hosts:
"In Search of Al Gore's Sense of... - I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a
novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred... - The fate of the country... does not depend on what
kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a
year,
but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber...
