PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others.
More Quotes from Ambrose Bierce:
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.Ambrose Bierce
RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
Ambrose Bierce
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound .... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
Ambrose Bierce
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
Ambrose Bierce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Passion Quotes, Property Quotes, Value QuotesBased on Keywords: cupidity, disappoints, gratifies
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Daniel Greenberg