ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving
with a pretence of open marauding.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
with a pretence of open marauding.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
- Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels,
levers, and springs, and believes it civilization.... - Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we
are having.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - Coward, n.:
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors
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to dislodge the worms. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked
a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
From the same category:
- The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell... - A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness,
but after that begins to bunch them. -- H. L. Mencken... - A king's castle is
his home... - How could Brigham Young be
against sex... - The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow,
nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey...
