Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.More Ambrose Bierce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]