ADMIRATION - Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.-Ambrose Bierce
Congratulation: The civility of envy. -Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Integrity: Doing the right thing...even when no one is looking.
apologize, v.i.: To lay the foundation for a future offence. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. -Abrose Bierce
Absurdity, n. a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
Dictionary: 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. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]
Referendum, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]
Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]