NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything... - Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."
"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
"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."
"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."
"Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."