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PRESENT, N. That Part Of Eternity Dividing The Domain Of Disappointment From The Realm Of Hope.
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PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of
disappointment from the realm of hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.
A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary