OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
Ambrose BierceKING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
Ambrose BierceCustard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose BierceMad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
Ambrose Bierce