341 Quotations with Opera.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 24. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated b ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 27. Lazarus Long: A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog ...
- 28. Gioacchino Rosini: How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
- 29. Paul Beatty: If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
- 30. George Bernard Shaw: Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
- 31. Opera producer Larry Kelly: Do it big or stay in bed.
- 32. H. L. Mencken: Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- 33. Noel Coward: People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is wh ...
- 34. Dan Quayle: Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good ove ...
- 35. Robert Benchley: The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicat ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may l ...
- 37. Peter van der Linden: When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that coul ...
- 38. Wystan Hugh Auden: No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sens ...
- 39. Hannah Moore: Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment ...
- 40. Nicholas Chamfort: An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, wh ...
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