831 Quotations with Ability.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 62. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 63. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...

- 64. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...

- 65. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...

- 66. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...

- 67. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...

- 68. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...

- 69. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 70. Ambrose Bierce: PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool ...

- 71. Ambrose Bierce: RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank a ...

- 72. Ambrose Bierce: RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is ...

- 73. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...

- 74. Ambrose Bierce: TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of tru ...

- 75. Thucydides: The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit ...

- 76. Sigmund Freud: Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

- 77. David Darlington: In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned mo ...

- 78. Aldo Leopold: Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as ...

- 79. Ross Perot: There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You ...

- 80. Karl Kraus: The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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