MEANDER, n. To...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

WRITERS A-H > journalist, short-story writer > Ambrose Bierce

MEANDER, n. To...

Vendor: WRITERS A-H

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce, (Jun 24 1842-1914), US journalist, short-story writer; He was a noted wit, satirist and sardonic short story writer who disappeared while covering the Mexican revolution.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA