RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'
More Quotes from Ambrose Bierce:
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.Ambrose Bierce
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
Ambrose Bierce
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.
Ambrose Bierce
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
Ambrose Bierce
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
Ambrose Bierce
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: rime, spelled, terminals, wickedlyWe can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck