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Ambrose Bierce's Definitions in The Devil's Dictionary: W

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20070201
Author:Bierce, Ambrose

WAR: A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

WEATHER: The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned.

WHEAT: A cereal from which a tolerably good whiskey can with some difficulty be made. It can also be used to make bread.

WHITE: Black.

WIT: The salt with which the humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

WORSHIP: The Creator's testimony to the ...

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