Related:

• FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.
  -- 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...
• BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva -- a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations.
  The Abracadabranese, for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by Folly....
• REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.
  The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles....
• PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...