384 Quotations with Origin.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It w ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 48. Anonymous: The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. T ...
- 49. Edward Gibbon: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled ...
- 50. Honore De Balzac: The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the wom ...
- 51. Author Unknown: I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to ...
- 52. Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- 53. Immanuel Kant: That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but a ...
- 54. Dante Alighieri: Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtu ...
- 55. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
- 56. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- 57. Laurence J. Peter: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where yo ...
- 58. Philip G. Hamerton: Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it ...
- 59. Dogen: When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our origina ...
- 60. Dorothy L. Sayers: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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