Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Outward Quotations

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off --to Missolonghi.

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.