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- The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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