"Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost."

Llaw lan pwy glywodd y stori am y ffrind trodd yn gariad, cyn troi cefn, cyn gofyn i fod 'yn ffrindiau' eto. Na? Dyw e ddim yn un da iawn. Ond eniwe, mae Ambrose Bierce yn un o'r awduron yna fydden i a'n 'ffrind' i wedi piso'n pants wrth ddarllen rhai misoedd yn ôl.* Dyma flas ar gynnwys 'The Devil's Dictionary':

ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

*trueni bo ni methu edrych i fyw llygaid ein gilydd rhagor.