Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Office

• Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, People, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Humor, Government

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

• NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Party, Grandmother, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

• ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Latin, America

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

• MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Office, Purpose, Use

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.134, 谷月社

• A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Office, Sovereign

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.200, 谷月社

• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Office, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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