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Alone, adj.:
In bad company.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Ambidextrous, adj.:
Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Ambiguity:
Telling the truth when you don't mean to.
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Ambition, n:
An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Amoebit:
Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.
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Andrea's Admonition:
Never bestow profanity upon a driver who has wronged you.
If you think his window is closed and he can't hear you,
it isn't and he can.
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Androphobia:
Fear of men.
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Anoint, v.:
To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently
slippery.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Anthony's Law of Force:
Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
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Anthony's Law of the Workshop:
Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
corner of the workshop.
Corollary:
On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike
your toes.
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