GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's
pulse and purse.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the
situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Kleptomaniac, n.:
A rich thief.
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Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
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... - TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian... - DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to
call theirs,
and keep. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
From the same category:
- Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold
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Thomas... - Spock: The odds of surviving another attack are 13562190123 to 1,
Captain... - SPAM: stuff
phrom a... - All is flux, nothing stays still.
-- Heraclitus (540?
480? B.C... - The function of genius is not to give new answers,
but to pose new questions -
which time and mediocrity can solve. -- Hugh Trevor...
