559 Quotations with Aver.
- 21. Sir Philip Sidney: Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hear ...
- 22. Blake: If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is ...
- 23. Stephen Hawking: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average sta ...
- 24. Henry Louis Mencken: It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there ap ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 33. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
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