Ambrose Bierce Quotes

UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

- Ambrose Bierce

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YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language --a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it. - Ambrose Bierce

JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. - Ambrose Bierce

ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.

God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. --_The Unauthorized Version_ - Ambrose Bierce