132 Quotations with Cest.
- 1. William Ralph Inge: A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatre ...
- 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- 3. Plutarch: It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our anc ...
- 4. Seneca: He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
- 5. Thomas Overbury: The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the pot ...
- 6. Ken Olsen: The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fro ...
- 7. Author Unknown: Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell ...
- 8. Aldous Huxley: To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it ha ...
- 9. Haida Indian saying: We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particula ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim b ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitati ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...
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