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1399 Quotations with Still.

1. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas i ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry ...
Woody Allen

3. In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're ...
Gloria Pitzer

4. AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still che ...
Ambrose Bierce

5. BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he wa ...
Ambrose Bierce

6. BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, m ...
Ambrose Bierce

7. ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
Ambrose Bierce

8. EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once ...
Ambrose Bierce

9. EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
Ambrose Bierce

10. FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
Ambrose Bierce

11. HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharao ...
Ambrose Bierce

12. HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally ab ...
Ambrose Bierce

13. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
Ambrose Bierce

14. INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
Ambrose Bierce

15. INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Bre ...
Ambrose Bierce

16. INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
Ambrose Bierce

17. LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...
Ambrose Bierce

18. LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. ...
Ambrose Bierce

19. MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open an ...
Ambrose Bierce

20. MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
Ambrose Bierce


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