Ambrose Bierce Ions Quotations

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion ...

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

art, n. This word has no definition.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.