Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. A
  4. Ambrose Bierce
  5. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its...

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

Ambrose Bierce
Horse, Animal, Earthquakes
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.