Churches for the powerless. Pawnshops for the stingy and weak. Many join to live parasitically off the backs of their card-carrying simpleton colleagues. Some join to become spies. Others, the most sincere, join to end up in jail from where they can observe the mean-spiritedness of all the rest.
(v.) doing something you shouldn't be doing.. it'll bite you back.
(also: taking more than your share)
takers v. givers v. otherish
(also: luck)
(also: taking more than your share)
takers v. givers v. otherish
(also: luck)
In the manner of a traveling railroad magnate.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff's attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
A mobile phone which has a touchscreen and can run a multitude of different apps like video games or social media
(also: mobile phone)
(also: social media)
(also: video games)
(also: mobile phone)
(also: social media)
(also: video games)
The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a celebrated political figure, generally more respected than a typical politician by virtue of being dead
(n.) a european who drinks olive oil from the flask and despises spaniards
(n.) An intoxicant distilled primarily from fermented grain mash, whisky is a catalyst for terrible decision making, stupidity and easily avoided injuries when consumed. This is generally referred to as "having a good time".
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
Intent on making his quotation truer,
He sought the page infallible of Brewer,
Then made a solemn vow that he would be
Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!
—Stumpo Gaker
(author: quote)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
Intent on making his quotation truer,
He sought the page infallible of Brewer,
Then made a solemn vow that he would be
Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!
—Stumpo Gaker
(author: quote)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(AD 50 – 121) Inventor of paper.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: ts'ai lun quotes)
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: ts'ai lun quotes)
n. Literally a freedman; hence, one who is in bondage to his passions.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(n.) a small tree able to be held between two fingers, used to scrape leftovers from between your teeth or debris from other hard-to-reach spaces.
... usually it is considered a bad idea to do both with the same toothpick.
... usually it is considered a bad idea to do both with the same toothpick.
a sport involving fighting from Eastern Asia. While sports such as boxing and wrestling do involve fighting, they are not from Eastern Asia, and are thus not classified as martial arts
A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)
My Little Pony, or MLP, is a TV show born in the 1980s, though in the modern day it's much better known for its fourth generation and the interesting fandom born around it.
A website that allows you to connect with people you barely remember from high school.
sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join