BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
More Quotes from Ambrose Bierce:
HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang.Ambrose Bierce
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Ambrose Bierce
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom and of whom only it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
Ambrose Bierce
CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce
ADOLESCENCE The stage between puberty and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age Quotes, Babies Quotes, Emotions Quotes, Sex Quotes, Violence QuotesBased on Keywords: antipathies, misshapen, sympathies
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Bryan Ferry
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
Andrzej Wajda