52 Quotations with Avers.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there ap ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 9. Samuel Johnson: Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledg ...
- 10. Agnes Repplier: A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be ...
- 11. John Ruskin: Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the f ...
- 12. Anais Nin: Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eye ...
- 13. Vaclav Havel: If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if ever ...
- 14. Barbara Ehrenreich: It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pus ...
- 15. Marcus Aurelius: Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
- 16. Niccolo Machiavelli: Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
- 17. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette: My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneo ...
- 18. Andre Breton: No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rul ...
- 19. Andre Breton: No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rul ...
- 20. James Thurber: One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand ...
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