Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose BierceFear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
Ambrose BierceAristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
Ambrose Bierce